1 Notmuch 0.17~rc1 (2013-11-20)
2 =============================
7 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
9 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
10 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
11 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
12 print for each message.
14 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
15 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
16 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
17 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
19 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
21 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
22 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
23 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
25 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
27 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
28 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
29 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
30 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
32 `notmuch compact` command
34 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
35 functionality through a more convenient interface than
36 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
37 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
38 move the compacted database into place.
43 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
45 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
46 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
47 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
48 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
49 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
54 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
56 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
57 search, show and tree mode itself)
59 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
62 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
63 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
65 Customising `notmuch-tree`
67 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
68 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
69 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
70 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
71 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
72 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
73 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
75 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
77 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
78 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
79 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
80 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
81 thread when the search was performed.
83 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
85 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
86 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
87 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
89 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
91 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
92 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
95 Built-in help improvements
97 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
98 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
99 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
101 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
103 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
104 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
105 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
107 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
109 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
110 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
112 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
114 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
115 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
116 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
117 to move some of them to the common keymap.
119 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
121 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
122 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
123 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
124 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
126 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
128 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
129 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
130 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
131 the body part of the message.
133 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
134 =========================
136 Command-Line Interface
137 ----------------------
139 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
141 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
142 folder and notmuch index.
144 `notmuch count --batch` option
146 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
147 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
149 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
151 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
152 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
153 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
156 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
158 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
159 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
160 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
161 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
162 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
165 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
167 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
168 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
170 Top level option to specify configuration file
172 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
173 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
175 Bash command-line completion
177 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
178 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
179 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
180 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
181 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
182 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
183 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
184 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
185 bash-completion package.
187 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
192 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
194 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
195 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
196 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
197 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
198 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
199 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
200 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
201 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
203 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
205 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
206 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
207 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
209 Key bindings for next/previous thread
211 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
212 previous thread in the search results.
214 Better handling of errors in search buffers
216 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
217 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
219 Faster search and show
221 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
222 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
223 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
224 threads should show faster.
228 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
229 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
230 in question was now removed from this release.
235 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
236 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
241 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
243 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
244 ===========================
249 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
251 Internal test framework changes
252 -------------------------------
254 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
257 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
258 ===========================
260 Internal test framework changes
261 -------------------------------
263 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
264 build failures in non-interactive environments.
266 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
267 =========================
272 Date range search support
274 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
275 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
276 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
277 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
278 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
281 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
283 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
284 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
285 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
286 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
287 but may be removed in a future release.
289 Command-Line Interface
290 ----------------------
292 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
294 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
295 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
297 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
299 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
300 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
301 officially deprecated.
303 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
305 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
306 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
307 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
309 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
311 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
312 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
315 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
316 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
319 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
321 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
322 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
323 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
325 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
327 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
328 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
329 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
331 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
333 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
334 output separated by null characters rather than newline
335 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
336 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
341 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
343 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
344 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
345 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
346 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
348 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
350 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
351 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
352 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
353 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
354 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
355 the behavior of this, see
356 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
357 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
359 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
360 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
361 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
363 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
365 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
366 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
369 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
371 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
372 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
373 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
374 simply displayed in place of the message.
376 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
378 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
379 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
381 Improved text/calendar content handling
383 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
384 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
385 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
386 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
388 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
390 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
391 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
392 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
393 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
395 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
397 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
398 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
399 for HTML email containing images.
401 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
403 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
405 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
407 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
410 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
412 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
413 the point where it was.
415 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
417 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
418 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
419 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
420 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
421 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
423 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
425 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
426 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
427 thread instead of the message id.
429 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
430 -----------------------------
432 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
433 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
434 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
435 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
436 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
437 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
438 further details and installation.
443 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
445 Internal test framework changes
446 -------------------------------
448 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
450 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
451 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
452 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
453 can result in buggy behavior.
455 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
456 =========================
461 Maildir tag synchronization
463 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
464 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
465 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
466 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
467 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
468 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
471 Command-Line Interface
472 ----------------------
474 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
475 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
476 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
477 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
478 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
484 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
486 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
488 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
489 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
490 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
492 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
494 It is now possible to embed newlines in
495 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
498 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
500 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
501 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
502 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
503 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
504 inside the result or message.
506 Search now uses the JSON format internally
508 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
509 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
511 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
512 user-specified formatting
514 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
515 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
516 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
517 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
518 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
520 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
521 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
523 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
524 ===========================
529 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
530 compilation error for this contrib package.
532 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
533 ===========================
538 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
540 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
541 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
542 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
543 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
545 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
546 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
549 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
550 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
551 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
552 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
555 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
557 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
560 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
561 =========================
563 Command-Line Interface
564 ----------------------
568 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
569 for a reply message and full information about the original message
570 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
571 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
573 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
574 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
575 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
576 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
580 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
581 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
583 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
584 tag in your query, for example:
586 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
588 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
589 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
591 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
592 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
594 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
596 Raw show format changes
598 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
599 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
600 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
601 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
602 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
603 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
604 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
605 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
607 Listing configuration items
609 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
615 Changes to tagging interface
617 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
618 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
619 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
620 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
621 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
622 for more information.
624 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
625 may need to update in custom configurations.
627 Reply improvement using the JSON format
629 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
630 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
631 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
632 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
635 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
636 -----------------------------
638 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
639 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
640 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
641 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
642 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
643 contrib/ from now on.
648 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
649 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
651 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
652 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
654 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
655 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
656 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
658 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
659 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
661 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
662 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
663 returning the new database object or directory object.
670 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
671 compatible with go 1.
673 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
674 =========================
676 Command-Line Interface
677 ----------------------
681 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
682 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
683 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
684 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
686 Mail store folder/file ignore
688 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
689 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
690 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
692 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
693 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
695 Unified help and manual pages
697 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
698 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
701 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
703 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
704 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
712 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
713 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
714 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
715 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
717 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
719 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
720 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
722 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
725 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
726 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
727 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
729 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
731 should be changed to:
733 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
735 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
737 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
738 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
740 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
742 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
743 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
744 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
745 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
746 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
747 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
751 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
752 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
753 of Mailing List Archives.
755 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
757 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
758 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
761 Show view archiving key binding changes
763 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
764 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
765 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
766 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
767 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
770 Support text/calendar MIME type
772 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
775 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
777 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
778 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
779 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
780 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
782 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
784 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
785 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
786 messages blue by default in the search view.
790 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
791 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
798 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
801 Python bindings changes
802 -----------------------
804 Python 3.2 compatibility
806 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
808 Added missing unicode conversions
810 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
811 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
812 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
817 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
819 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
820 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
821 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
822 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
823 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
825 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
826 ===========================
831 Fix error handling in python bindings
833 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
834 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
835 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
836 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
838 Quote MML tags in replies
840 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
841 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
842 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
843 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
844 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
845 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
846 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
847 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
849 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
850 =========================
852 Command-Line Interface
853 ----------------------
857 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
858 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
859 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
860 importing new messages into the database.
862 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
864 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
865 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
866 sometimes. This is now fixed.
871 Automatic tag query optimization
873 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
874 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
875 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
877 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
879 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
880 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
881 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
886 Reduction of memory leaks
888 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
889 and fixed in this release.
896 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
897 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
898 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
901 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
903 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
904 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
905 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
908 Improvements in saved search management
910 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
911 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
912 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
914 Hooks for notmuch-hello
916 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
917 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
918 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
920 New face for crypto parts headers
922 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
923 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
924 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
927 Use space as default thousands separator
929 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
930 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
931 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
933 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
936 New function notmuch-show-advance
938 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
939 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
940 be bound to SPC with:
942 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
944 Various performance improvements
949 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
950 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
953 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
954 ===========================
959 Fix crash in python bindings
961 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
962 for some, but not all users.
964 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
965 ===========================
970 Fix `--help` argument
972 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
973 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
974 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
976 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
977 =========================
979 New build and testing features
980 ------------------------------
982 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
983 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
984 prerequisites is improved.
986 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
988 New command-line features
989 -------------------------
991 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
993 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
994 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
997 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
999 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1000 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1001 favour of using stdout.
1003 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1005 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1006 limit the number of results shown.
1008 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1010 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1011 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1014 New emacs UI features
1015 ---------------------
1017 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1019 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1020 starting with "tag:".
1022 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1024 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1025 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1027 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1029 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1031 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1033 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1034 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1039 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1041 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1043 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1044 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1045 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1046 requires a database rebuild:
1048 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1049 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1051 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1053 New collection of add-on tools
1054 ------------------------------
1056 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1057 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1058 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1061 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1063 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1064 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1065 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1067 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1068 ========================
1070 New, general features
1071 ---------------------
1073 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1075 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1076 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1077 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1078 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1079 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1086 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1087 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1089 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1093 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1094 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1095 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1098 Python bindings changes
1099 -----------------------
1101 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1103 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1104 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1105 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1106 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1107 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1108 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1110 Ruby bindings changes
1111 ---------------------
1113 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1114 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1115 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1116 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1121 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1123 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1124 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1126 Reply formatting cleanup
1127 ------------------------
1129 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1130 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1132 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1133 ========================
1135 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1137 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1138 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1139 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1140 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1143 Improved Build system portability
1145 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1146 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1147 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1149 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1151 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1153 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1155 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1156 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1157 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1159 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1160 ========================
1162 Vim interface improvements
1163 --------------------------
1165 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1167 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1168 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1169 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1170 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1171 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1173 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1175 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1176 * fix compose temp file name
1178 Python Bindings changes
1179 -----------------------
1181 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1183 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1184 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1186 Build-System improvements
1187 -------------------------
1189 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1191 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1194 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1195 ==========================
1200 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1202 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1203 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1205 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1206 =======================
1208 New, general features
1209 ---------------------
1211 Folder-based searching
1213 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1214 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1215 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1219 For example, one might use things such as:
1225 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1226 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1228 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1229 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1230 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1231 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1233 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1234 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1235 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1238 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1239 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1241 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1243 Support for PGP/MIME
1245 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1246 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1247 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1249 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1251 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1252 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1254 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1255 notmuch will receive these tags.
1257 New command-line features
1258 -------------------------
1260 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1262 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1263 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1265 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1267 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1268 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1269 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1271 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1273 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1274 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1275 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1276 which parts a signature part applies).
1278 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1280 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1281 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1282 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1283 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1284 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1287 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1289 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1290 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1291 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1292 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1293 by translating it internally to the new call.
1295 Performance improvements
1296 ------------------------
1298 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1300 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1301 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1302 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1304 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1305 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1307 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1309 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1310 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1311 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1313 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1314 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1315 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1316 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1318 Faster initial indexing
1320 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1321 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1322 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1324 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1326 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1327 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1328 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1329 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1331 New emacs-interface features
1332 ----------------------------
1334 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1336 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1337 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1338 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1339 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1340 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1341 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1343 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1345 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1346 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1347 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1348 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1350 User-selectable From address
1352 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1353 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1354 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1355 will prompt for the from address to use.
1357 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1358 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1359 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1361 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1362 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1363 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1366 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1368 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1369 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1371 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1373 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1375 ----- Original Message -----
1377 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1378 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1379 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1380 citations work much like conventional citations.
1382 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1384 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1385 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1386 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1387 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1388 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1390 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1391 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1393 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1395 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1396 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1397 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1399 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1401 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1402 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1403 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1404 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1405 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1407 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1409 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1412 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1414 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1416 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1418 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1421 Vim interface improvements
1422 --------------------------
1424 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1426 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1427 * Implementing archive in show view
1428 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1429 * Add delete commands
1432 Bindings improvements
1433 ---------------------
1435 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1437 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1438 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1440 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1442 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1446 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1447 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1448 `list(Messages)` works now
1449 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1451 These allow, for example:
1453 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1455 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1457 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1463 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1465 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1468 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1470 New build-system features
1471 -------------------------
1473 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1475 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1476 the configure script from some other directory:
1483 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1485 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1486 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1487 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1488 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1489 manual invocation of configure.
1491 New test-suite feature
1492 ----------------------
1494 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1496 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1497 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1498 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1499 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1500 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1503 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1505 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1506 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1507 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1508 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1509 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1510 are updated to take advantage of this.
1512 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1514 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1515 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1516 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1517 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1523 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1525 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1526 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1527 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1529 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1531 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1533 to:user@elsewhere.com
1535 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1537 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1539 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1541 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1542 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1543 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1546 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1547 from the Received headers in some cases
1549 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1550 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1552 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1554 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1556 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1558 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1559 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1560 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1562 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1563 -------------------------
1565 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1567 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1568 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1569 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1571 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1573 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1574 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1575 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1578 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1580 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1581 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1582 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1583 fixed to avoid this bug.
1585 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1587 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1588 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1590 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1591 ========================
1593 New, general features
1594 ---------------------
1596 Maildir-flag synchronization
1598 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1599 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1608 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1610 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1611 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1612 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1613 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1615 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1616 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1617 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1618 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1621 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1623 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1624 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1625 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1627 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1628 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1630 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1631 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1633 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1634 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1635 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1637 New library features
1638 --------------------
1640 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1642 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1643 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1644 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1645 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1647 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1648 message with the new function:
1650 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1652 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1653 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1654 over all available filenames for a given message.
1656 New command-line features
1657 -------------------------
1659 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1661 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1662 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1663 access to the mail store itself.
1665 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1666 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1667 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1668 name of a script containing:
1670 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1672 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1673 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1679 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1681 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1683 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1685 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1686 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1687 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1688 now produces nothing).
1690 Emacs interface improvements
1691 ----------------------------
1693 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1695 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1697 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1699 Display current thread subject in a header line
1701 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1703 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1705 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1706 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1707 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1708 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1709 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1710 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1711 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1713 Vim interface improvements
1714 --------------------------
1716 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1718 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1719 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1725 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1727 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1728 ========================
1730 New command-line features
1731 -------------------------
1733 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1735 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1736 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1737 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1739 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1740 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1741 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1742 scripts. For example:
1744 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1745 <operations-on> "$file"
1748 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1750 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1751 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1752 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1753 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1754 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1755 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1757 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1759 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1760 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1761 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1762 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1764 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1766 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1767 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1768 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1769 default rather than Bcc.
1771 New library features
1772 --------------------
1774 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1776 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1777 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1782 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1784 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1785 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1786 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1787 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1788 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1789 notmuch customize interface.
1791 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1793 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1794 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1795 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1796 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1798 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1800 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1801 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1802 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1803 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1805 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1807 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1808 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1809 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1810 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1811 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1812 notmuch customize interface.
1814 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1816 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1817 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1818 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1819 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1820 notmuch customize interface.
1822 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1824 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1825 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1826 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1827 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1830 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1832 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1833 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1834 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1837 New build-system features
1838 -------------------------
1840 Various portability fixes have been applied
1842 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1843 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1844 more portable than ever before.
1846 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1848 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1849 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1850 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1852 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1853 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1854 automatically run ldconfig.
1856 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1857 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1858 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1860 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1861 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1862 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1863 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1865 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1867 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1868 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1869 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1870 used in the resulting Makefile.
1872 New test-suite features
1873 -----------------------
1875 New modularization of test suite
1877 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1878 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1879 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1880 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1881 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1882 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1883 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1884 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1886 New testing of emacs interface
1888 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1889 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1890 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1891 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1892 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1893 database via the FCC setting.
1898 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1900 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1901 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1902 persistent error of the form:
1904 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1906 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1907 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1909 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1911 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1912 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1913 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1915 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1917 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1918 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1919 parsing the notmuch results).
1921 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1923 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1926 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1927 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1928 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1933 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1935 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1936 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1937 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1938 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1939 the emacs interface.
1941 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1943 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1944 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1945 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1947 Python-binding fixes
1948 --------------------
1950 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1952 Debian-specific fixes
1953 ---------------------
1955 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1957 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1958 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1959 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1962 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1963 ==========================
1968 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1970 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1971 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1972 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1973 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1975 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1977 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1978 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1979 want notmuch to crash.
1984 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1986 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1987 directory does not exist
1992 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1994 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1995 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1997 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1998 ========================
2000 New command-line features
2001 -------------------------
2003 User-configurable tags for new messages
2005 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2006 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2007 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2008 to specify this value.
2010 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2012 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2013 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2014 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2016 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2018 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2019 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2021 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2023 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2024 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2025 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2026 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2027 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2030 Indication of author names that match a search
2032 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2033 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2034 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2035 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2036 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2037 messages in the thread are listed first.
2039 New: Python bindings
2040 --------------------
2042 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2043 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2044 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2045 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2047 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2048 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2049 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2052 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2053 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2054 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2056 Emacs interface improvements
2057 ----------------------------
2059 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2061 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2062 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2063 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2064 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2065 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2066 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2067 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2068 but without any of the disadvantages).
2070 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2071 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2072 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2075 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2076 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2077 instead running something like:
2079 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2081 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2082 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2083 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2086 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2088 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2089 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2090 tweaked by the user.
2092 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2093 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2094 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2097 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2098 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2099 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2102 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2104 This support currently relies on an external program,
2105 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2106 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2107 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2108 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2109 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2112 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2113 notmuch) is available via:
2115 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2117 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2118 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2119 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2121 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2123 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2124 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2125 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2126 making this automatic in a future release.
2128 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2130 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2131 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2132 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2133 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2134 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2135 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2138 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2140 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2141 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2142 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2144 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2146 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2147 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2148 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2150 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2151 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2152 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2153 other representation.
2155 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2156 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2159 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2161 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2162 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2163 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2165 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2166 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2167 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2169 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2171 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2172 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2173 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2174 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2175 to display the search result.
2177 More flexible handling of header visibility
2179 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2180 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2181 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2182 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2183 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2184 with the 'h' keybinding.
2186 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2187 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2188 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2190 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2192 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2194 Customizable formatting of search results
2196 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2197 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2198 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2200 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2202 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2204 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2209 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2211 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2212 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2213 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2214 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2220 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2222 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2223 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2225 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2227 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2228 accept are now all accepted.
2233 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2235 Better display of output from failed tests
2237 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2238 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2240 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2241 ========================
2243 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2244 detailed release notes this time!
2246 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2247 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2249 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2250 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2251 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2252 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2259 Better guessing of From: header
2261 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2262 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2263 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2264 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2265 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2268 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2270 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2271 guaranteed to match all messages.
2273 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2275 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2276 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2277 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2278 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2279 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2282 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2285 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2286 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2287 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2288 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2293 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2295 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2296 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2297 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2298 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2300 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2302 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2304 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2305 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2306 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2308 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2310 Previously, the user might see:
2312 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2316 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2318 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2319 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2320 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2321 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2323 Emacs client features
2324 ---------------------
2326 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2328 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2329 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2330 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2331 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2332 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2334 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2337 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2338 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2339 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2340 search with the '*' binding.
2342 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2344 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2345 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2348 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2350 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2351 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2352 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2354 Build-system features
2355 ---------------------
2357 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2359 Add support to configure for many standard options
2361 We include actual support for:
2363 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2365 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2367 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2368 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2370 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2371 separate "make install-emacs"
2373 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2375 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2376 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2377 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2379 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2382 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2383 ========================
2385 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2387 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2388 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2390 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2391 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2392 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2393 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2394 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2395 tags from messages in a thread.
2402 indent-tabs-mode: nil