1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results unless they
17 appear explicitly in a query. By default, notmuch excludes the tags
18 deleted and spam. This can be changed using the new config setting
19 search.auto_exclude_tags.
26 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
27 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
28 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
29 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
36 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
42 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
44 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
45 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
46 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
48 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
49 =========================
51 Command-Line Interface
52 ----------------------
56 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
57 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
58 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
59 importing new messages into the database.
61 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
63 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
64 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
65 sometimes. This is now fixed.
70 Automatic tag query optimization
72 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
73 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
74 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
76 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
78 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
79 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
80 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
85 Reduction of memory leaks
87 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
88 and fixed in this release.
95 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
96 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
97 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
100 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
102 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
103 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
104 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
107 Improvements in saved search management
109 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
110 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
111 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
113 Hooks for notmuch-hello
115 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
116 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
117 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
119 New face for crypto parts headers
121 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
122 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
123 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
126 Use space as default thousands separator
128 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
129 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
130 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
132 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
133 buttonized id: links.
135 New function notmuch-show-advance
137 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
138 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
139 be bound to SPC with:
141 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
143 Various performance improvements.
148 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
149 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
152 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
153 ===========================
158 Fix crash in python bindings.
160 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
161 for some, but not all users.
163 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
164 ===========================
171 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
172 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
175 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
176 =========================
178 New build and testing features
179 ------------------------------
181 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
182 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
183 prerequisites is improved.
185 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
187 New command-line features
188 -------------------------
190 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
192 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
193 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
196 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
198 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
199 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
200 favour of using stdout.
202 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
204 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
205 the number of results shown.
207 Add "notmuch count --output" option
209 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
210 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
212 New emacs UI features
213 ---------------------
215 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
217 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
218 starting with "tag:".
220 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
222 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
223 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
225 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
227 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
229 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
231 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
232 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
237 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
239 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
241 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
242 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
243 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
244 requires a database rebuild:
246 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
247 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
249 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
251 New collection of add-on tools
252 ------------------------------
254 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
255 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
256 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
259 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
261 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
262 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
263 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
265 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
266 ========================
268 New, general features
269 ---------------------
271 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
273 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
274 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
275 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
276 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
277 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
284 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
285 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
287 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
291 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
292 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
293 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
296 Python bindings changes
297 -----------------------
299 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
301 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
302 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
303 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
304 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
305 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
306 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
308 Ruby bindings changes
309 ---------------------
311 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
312 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
313 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
314 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
319 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
321 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
322 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
324 Reply formatting cleanup
325 ------------------------
327 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
328 MIME parts are being suppressed.
330 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
331 ========================
333 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
335 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
336 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
337 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
338 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
341 Improved Build system portability
343 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
344 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
345 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
347 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
349 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
351 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
353 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
354 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
355 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
357 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
358 ========================
360 Vim interface improvements
361 --------------------------
363 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
365 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
366 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
367 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
368 * fix from list reformatting in search view
369 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
371 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
373 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
374 * fix compose temp file name
376 Python Bindings changes
377 -----------------------
379 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
381 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
382 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
384 Build-System improvements
385 ------------------------
387 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
389 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
392 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
393 ==========================
398 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
400 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
401 people running gcc 4.4.5.
403 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
404 =======================
405 New, general features
406 ---------------------
407 Folder-based searching
409 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
410 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
411 storage). The syntax is as follows:
415 For example, one might use things such as:
421 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
422 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
424 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
425 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
426 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
427 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
429 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
430 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
431 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
434 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
435 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
437 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
441 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
442 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
443 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
445 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
447 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
448 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
450 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
451 notmuch will receive these tags.
453 New command-line features
454 -------------------------
455 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
457 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
458 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
460 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
462 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
463 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
464 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
466 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
468 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
469 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
470 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
471 which parts a signature part applies).
473 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
475 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
476 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
477 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
478 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
479 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
482 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
484 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
485 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
486 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
487 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
488 by translating it internally to the new call.
490 Performance improvements
491 ------------------------
492 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
494 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
495 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
496 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
498 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
499 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
501 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
503 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
504 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
505 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
507 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
508 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
509 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
510 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
512 Faster initial indexing
514 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
515 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
516 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
518 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
520 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
521 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
522 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
523 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
525 New emacs-interface features
526 ----------------------------
528 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
530 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
531 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
532 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
533 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
534 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
535 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
537 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
539 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
540 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
541 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
542 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
544 User-selectable From address
546 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
547 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
548 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
549 will prompt for the from address to use.
551 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
552 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
553 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
555 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
556 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
557 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
560 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
562 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
563 its parent, the subject is not shown.
565 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
567 When a message contains a line looking something like:
569 ----- Original Message -----
571 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
572 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
573 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
574 citations work much like conventional citations.
576 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
578 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
579 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
580 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
581 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
582 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
584 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
585 Notmuch After Tag Hook
587 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
589 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
590 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
591 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
593 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
595 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
596 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
597 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
598 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
599 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
601 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
603 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
606 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
608 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
610 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
611 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
613 Vim interface improvements
614 --------------------------
615 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
617 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
618 * Implementing archive in show view
619 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
620 * Add delete commands
623 Bindings improvements
624 ---------------------
625 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
627 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
628 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
630 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
631 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
634 - Message().get_filenames(),
635 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
636 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
638 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
639 These allow, for example:
642 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
644 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
649 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
650 Use len(list(Messages())) or
651 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
653 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
655 New build-system features
656 -------------------------
657 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
659 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
660 the configure script from some other directory:
667 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
669 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
670 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
671 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
672 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
673 manual invocation of configure.
675 New test-suite feature
676 ----------------------
677 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
679 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
680 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
681 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
682 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
683 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
686 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
688 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
689 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
690 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
691 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
692 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
693 are updated to take advantage of this.
695 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
697 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
698 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
699 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
700 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
705 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
707 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
708 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
709 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
711 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
713 This fixed a bug where a search for:
715 to:user@elsewhere.com
717 would incorrectly match a message sent:
719 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
721 Fix --output=json when search has no results
723 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
724 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
725 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
728 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
729 from the Received headers in some cases.
731 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
732 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
734 Cleaned up several memory leaks
736 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
738 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
740 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
741 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
742 interface and were never intended to be exported.
744 Emacs-interface bug fixes
745 -------------------------
746 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
748 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
749 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
750 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
752 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
754 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
755 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
756 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
759 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
761 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
762 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
763 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
764 fixed to avoid this bug.
766 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
768 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
769 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
771 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
772 ========================
773 New, general features
774 ---------------------
775 Maildir-flag synchronization
777 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
778 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
787 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
789 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
790 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
791 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
792 renamed with an 'R' flag).
794 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
795 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
796 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
797 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
800 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
802 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
803 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
804 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
806 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
807 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
809 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
810 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
812 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
813 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
814 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
818 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
820 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
821 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
822 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
823 notmuch_message_get_filename).
825 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
826 message with the new function:
828 notmuch_message_get_filenames
830 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
831 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
832 all available filenames for a given message.
834 New command-line features
835 -------------------------
836 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
838 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
839 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
840 access to the mail store itself.
842 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
843 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
844 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
845 name of a script containing:
847 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
849 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
850 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
855 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
857 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
859 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
861 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
862 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
863 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
864 now produces nothing).
866 Emacs interface improvements
867 ----------------------------
868 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
870 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
872 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
874 Display current thread subject in a header line.
876 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
878 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
880 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
881 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
882 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
883 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
884 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
885 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
886 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
888 Vim interface improvements
889 --------------------------
890 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
892 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
893 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
898 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
900 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
901 ========================
902 New command-line features
903 -------------------------
904 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
906 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
907 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
908 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
910 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
911 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
912 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
913 scripts. For example:
915 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
916 <operations-on> "$file"
919 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
921 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
922 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
923 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
924 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
925 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
926 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
928 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
930 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
931 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
932 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
933 custom items stored in the configuration file.
935 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
937 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
938 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
939 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
940 default rather than Bcc.
944 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
946 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
947 notmuch_query_t object.
951 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
953 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
954 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
955 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
956 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
957 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
958 notmuch customize interface.
960 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
962 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
963 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
964 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
965 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
967 Optional support for detecting inline patches
969 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
970 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
971 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
972 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
974 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
976 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
977 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
978 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
979 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
980 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
981 notmuch customize interface.
983 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
985 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
986 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
987 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
988 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
989 notmuch customize interface.
991 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
993 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
994 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
995 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
996 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
999 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1001 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1002 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1003 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1006 New build-system features
1007 -------------------------
1008 Various portability fixes have been applied
1010 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1011 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1012 more portable than ever before.
1014 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1016 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1017 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1018 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1020 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1021 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1022 automatically run ldconfig.
1024 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1025 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1026 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1028 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1029 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1030 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1031 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1033 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1035 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1036 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1037 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1038 used in the resulting Makefile.
1040 New test-suite features
1041 -----------------------
1042 New modularization of test suite.
1044 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1045 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1046 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1047 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1048 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1049 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1050 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1051 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1053 New testing of emacs interface.
1055 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1056 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1057 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1058 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1059 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1060 database via the FCC setting.
1064 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1066 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1067 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1068 persistent error of the form:
1070 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1072 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1073 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1075 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1077 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1078 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1079 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1081 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1083 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1084 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1085 parsing the notmuch results).
1087 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1089 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1091 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1092 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1093 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1097 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1099 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1100 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1101 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1102 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1103 the emacs interface.
1105 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1107 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1108 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1109 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1111 Python-binding fixes
1112 --------------------
1113 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1115 Debian-specific fixes
1116 ---------------------
1117 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1119 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1120 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1121 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1124 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1125 ==========================
1128 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1130 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1131 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1132 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1133 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1135 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1137 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1138 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1139 want notmuch to crash.
1143 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1145 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1146 directory does not exist.
1150 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1152 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1153 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1155 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1156 ========================
1157 New command-line features
1158 -------------------------
1159 User-configurable tags for new messages
1161 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1162 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1163 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1164 to specify this value.
1166 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1168 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1169 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1170 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1172 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1174 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1175 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1177 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1179 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1180 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1181 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1182 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1183 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1186 Indication of author names that match a search
1188 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1189 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1190 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1191 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1192 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1193 messages in the thread are listed first.
1195 New: Python bindings
1196 --------------------
1197 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1198 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1199 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1200 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1202 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1203 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1204 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1207 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1208 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1209 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1211 Emacs interface improvements
1212 ----------------------------
1213 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1215 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1216 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1217 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1218 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1219 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1220 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1221 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1222 but without any of the disadvantages).
1224 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1225 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1226 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1229 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1230 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1231 recommend instead running something like:
1233 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1235 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1236 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1237 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1240 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1242 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1243 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1244 tweaked by the user.
1246 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1247 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1248 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1251 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1252 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1253 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1256 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1258 This support currently relies on an external program,
1259 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1260 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1261 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1262 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1263 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1266 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1267 notmuch) is available via:
1269 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1271 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1272 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1273 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1275 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1277 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1278 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1279 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1280 making this automatic in a future release.
1282 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1284 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1285 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1286 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1287 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1288 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1289 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1292 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1294 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1295 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1296 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1298 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1300 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1301 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1302 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1304 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1305 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1306 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1307 other representation.
1309 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1310 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1313 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1315 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1316 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1317 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1319 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1320 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1321 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1323 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1325 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1326 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1327 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1328 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1329 to display the search result.
1331 More flexible handling of header visibility
1333 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1334 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1335 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1336 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1337 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1338 with the 'h' keybinding.
1340 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1341 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1342 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1344 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1346 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1348 Customizable formatting of search results
1350 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1351 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1352 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1354 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1356 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1358 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1362 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1364 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1365 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1366 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1367 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1372 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1374 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1375 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1377 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1379 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1380 accept are now all accepted.
1384 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1386 Better display of output from failed tests.
1388 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1389 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1391 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1392 ========================
1393 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1394 detailed release notes this time!
1396 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1397 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1399 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1400 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1401 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1402 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1408 Better guessing of From: header.
1410 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1411 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1412 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1413 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1414 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1417 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1419 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1420 guaranteed to match all messages.
1422 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1424 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1425 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1426 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1427 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1428 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1431 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1434 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1435 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1436 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1437 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1441 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1443 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1444 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1445 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1446 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1448 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1450 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1452 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1453 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1454 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1456 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1458 Previously, the user might see:
1460 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1464 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1466 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1467 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1468 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1469 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1471 Emacs client features
1472 ---------------------
1473 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1475 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1476 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1477 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1478 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1479 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1481 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1484 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1485 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1486 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1487 search with the '*' binding.
1489 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1491 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1492 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1495 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1497 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1498 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1499 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1501 Build-system features
1502 ---------------------
1503 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1505 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1507 We include actual support for:
1509 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1511 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1513 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1514 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1516 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1517 separate "make install-emacs".
1519 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1521 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1522 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1523 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1525 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1528 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1529 ========================
1530 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1532 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1533 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1535 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1536 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1537 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1538 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1539 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1540 tags from messages in a thread.
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