1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
8 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
9 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
10 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
11 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
12 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
13 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
14 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
15 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
21 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
23 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
24 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
25 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
26 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
27 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
28 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
31 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
33 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
34 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
35 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
36 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
39 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
41 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
42 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
43 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
44 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
45 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
46 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
47 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
52 Notmuch database upgrade
54 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
55 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
56 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
57 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
58 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
59 released version of Notmuch before now.
61 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
63 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
64 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
65 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
66 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
68 Message header parsing changes
70 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
71 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
72 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
73 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
74 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
75 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
77 Command-Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
82 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
84 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
86 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
93 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
94 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
95 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
96 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
97 `~/.emacs` with these.
99 Changed format for saved searches
101 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
102 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
103 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
104 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
107 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
108 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
109 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
110 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
112 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
113 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
114 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
116 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
117 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
118 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
119 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
120 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
122 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
124 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
125 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
126 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
128 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
130 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
131 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
132 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
133 message had been unread).
135 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
136 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
137 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
138 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
140 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
141 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
142 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
144 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
145 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
146 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
147 to tags already present.
151 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
152 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
153 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
154 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
155 these differ from each other.
156 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
158 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
160 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
161 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
162 for these Emacs versions.
164 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
166 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
167 newlines before calling notmuch count.
169 Bug fixes for sender identities
171 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
172 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
173 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
175 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
177 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
178 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
179 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
180 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
185 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
186 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
188 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
189 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
190 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
191 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
193 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
194 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
195 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
196 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
197 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
199 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
201 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
202 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
204 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
205 =========================
207 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
208 ---------------------------------------
210 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
211 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
212 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
213 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
214 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
215 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
216 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
220 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
221 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
223 Command-Line Interface
224 ----------------------
226 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
228 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
229 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
230 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
231 print for each message.
233 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
234 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
235 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
236 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
238 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
240 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
241 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
242 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
244 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
246 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
247 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
248 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
249 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
251 `notmuch compact` command
253 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
254 functionality through a more convenient interface than
255 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
256 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
257 move the compacted database into place.
262 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
264 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
265 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
266 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
267 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
268 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
269 and multiple threads.
273 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
275 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
276 search, show and tree mode itself)
278 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
281 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
282 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
284 Customising `notmuch-tree`
286 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
287 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
288 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
289 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
290 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
291 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
292 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
294 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
296 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
297 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
298 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
299 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
300 thread when the search was performed.
302 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
304 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
305 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
306 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
308 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
310 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
311 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
314 Built-in help improvements
316 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
317 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
318 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
320 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
322 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
323 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
324 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
326 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
328 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
329 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
331 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
333 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
334 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
335 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
336 to move some of them to the common keymap.
338 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
340 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
341 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
342 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
343 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
345 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
347 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
348 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
349 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
351 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
353 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
354 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
355 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
357 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
359 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
360 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
361 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
362 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
363 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
365 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
367 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
368 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
369 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
370 the body part of the message.
375 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
376 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
377 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
379 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
380 =========================
382 Command-Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
387 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
388 folder and notmuch index.
390 `notmuch count --batch` option
392 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
393 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
395 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
397 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
398 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
399 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
402 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
404 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
405 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
406 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
407 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
408 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
411 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
413 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
414 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
416 Top level option to specify configuration file
418 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
419 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
421 Bash command-line completion
423 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
424 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
425 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
426 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
427 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
428 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
429 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
430 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
431 bash-completion package.
433 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
438 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
440 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
441 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
442 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
443 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
444 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
445 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
446 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
447 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
449 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
451 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
452 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
453 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
455 Key bindings for next/previous thread
457 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
458 previous thread in the search results.
460 Better handling of errors in search buffers
462 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
463 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
465 Faster search and show
467 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
468 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
469 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
470 threads should show faster.
474 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
475 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
476 in question was now removed from this release.
481 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
482 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
487 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
489 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
490 ===========================
495 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
497 Internal test framework changes
498 -------------------------------
500 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
503 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
504 ===========================
506 Internal test framework changes
507 -------------------------------
509 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
510 build failures in non-interactive environments.
512 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
513 =========================
518 Date range search support
520 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
521 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
522 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
523 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
524 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
527 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
529 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
530 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
531 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
532 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
533 but may be removed in a future release.
535 Command-Line Interface
536 ----------------------
538 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
540 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
541 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
543 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
545 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
546 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
547 officially deprecated.
549 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
551 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
552 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
553 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
555 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
557 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
558 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
561 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
562 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
565 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
567 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
568 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
569 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
571 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
573 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
574 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
575 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
577 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
579 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
580 output separated by null characters rather than newline
581 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
582 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
587 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
589 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
590 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
591 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
592 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
594 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
596 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
597 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
598 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
599 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
600 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
601 the behavior of this, see
602 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
603 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
605 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
606 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
607 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
609 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
611 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
612 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
615 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
617 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
618 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
619 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
620 simply displayed in place of the message.
622 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
624 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
625 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
627 Improved text/calendar content handling
629 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
630 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
631 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
632 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
634 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
636 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
637 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
638 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
639 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
641 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
643 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
644 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
645 for HTML email containing images.
647 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
649 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
651 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
653 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
656 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
658 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
659 the point where it was.
661 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
663 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
664 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
665 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
666 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
667 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
669 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
671 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
672 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
673 thread instead of the message id.
675 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
676 -----------------------------
678 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
679 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
680 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
681 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
682 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
683 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
684 further details and installation.
689 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
691 Internal test framework changes
692 -------------------------------
694 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
696 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
697 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
698 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
699 can result in buggy behavior.
701 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
702 =========================
707 Maildir tag synchronization
709 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
710 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
711 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
712 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
713 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
714 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
717 Command-Line Interface
718 ----------------------
720 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
721 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
722 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
723 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
724 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
730 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
732 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
734 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
735 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
736 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
738 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
740 It is now possible to embed newlines in
741 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
744 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
746 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
747 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
748 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
749 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
750 inside the result or message.
752 Search now uses the JSON format internally
754 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
755 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
757 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
758 user-specified formatting
760 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
761 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
762 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
763 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
764 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
766 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
767 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
769 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
770 ===========================
775 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
776 compilation error for this contrib package.
778 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
779 ===========================
784 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
786 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
787 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
788 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
789 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
791 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
792 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
795 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
796 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
797 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
798 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
801 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
803 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
806 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
807 =========================
809 Command-Line Interface
810 ----------------------
814 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
815 for a reply message and full information about the original message
816 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
817 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
819 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
820 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
821 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
822 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
826 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
827 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
829 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
830 tag in your query, for example:
832 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
834 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
835 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
837 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
838 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
840 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
842 Raw show format changes
844 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
845 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
846 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
847 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
848 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
849 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
850 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
851 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
853 Listing configuration items
855 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
861 Changes to tagging interface
863 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
864 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
865 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
866 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
867 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
868 for more information.
870 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
871 may need to update in custom configurations.
873 Reply improvement using the JSON format
875 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
876 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
877 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
878 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
881 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
882 -----------------------------
884 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
885 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
886 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
887 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
888 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
889 contrib/ from now on.
894 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
895 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
897 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
898 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
900 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
901 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
902 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
904 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
905 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
907 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
908 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
909 returning the new database object or directory object.
916 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
917 compatible with go 1.
919 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
920 =========================
922 Command-Line Interface
923 ----------------------
927 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
928 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
929 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
930 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
932 Mail store folder/file ignore
934 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
935 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
936 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
938 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
939 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
941 Unified help and manual pages
943 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
944 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
947 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
949 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
950 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
958 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
959 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
960 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
961 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
963 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
965 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
966 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
968 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
971 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
972 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
973 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
975 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
977 should be changed to:
979 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
981 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
983 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
984 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
986 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
988 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
989 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
990 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
991 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
992 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
993 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
997 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
998 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
999 of Mailing List Archives.
1001 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1003 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1004 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1007 Show view archiving key binding changes
1009 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1010 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1011 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1012 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1013 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1016 Support text/calendar MIME type
1018 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1021 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1023 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1024 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1025 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1026 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1028 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1030 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1031 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1032 messages blue by default in the search view.
1036 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1037 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1044 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1047 Python bindings changes
1048 -----------------------
1050 Python 3.2 compatibility
1052 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1054 Added missing unicode conversions
1056 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1057 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1058 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1063 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1065 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1066 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1067 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1068 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1069 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1071 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1072 ===========================
1077 Fix error handling in python bindings
1079 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1080 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1081 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1082 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1084 Quote MML tags in replies
1086 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1087 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1088 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1089 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1090 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1091 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1092 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1093 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1095 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1096 =========================
1098 Command-Line Interface
1099 ----------------------
1103 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1104 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1105 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1106 importing new messages into the database.
1108 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1110 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1111 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1112 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1117 Automatic tag query optimization
1119 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1120 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1121 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1123 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1125 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1126 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1127 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1132 Reduction of memory leaks
1134 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1135 and fixed in this release.
1142 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1143 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1144 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1147 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1149 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1150 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1151 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1154 Improvements in saved search management
1156 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1157 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1158 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1160 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1162 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1163 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1164 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1166 New face for crypto parts headers
1168 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1169 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1170 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1173 Use space as default thousands separator
1175 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1176 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1177 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1179 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1180 buttonized id: links
1182 New function notmuch-show-advance
1184 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1185 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1186 be bound to SPC with:
1188 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1190 Various performance improvements
1195 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1196 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1199 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1200 ===========================
1205 Fix crash in python bindings
1207 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1208 for some, but not all users.
1210 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1211 ===========================
1216 Fix `--help` argument
1218 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1219 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1220 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1222 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1223 =========================
1225 New build and testing features
1226 ------------------------------
1228 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1229 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1230 prerequisites is improved.
1232 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1234 New command-line features
1235 -------------------------
1237 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1239 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1240 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1243 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1245 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1246 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1247 favour of using stdout.
1249 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1251 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1252 limit the number of results shown.
1254 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1256 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1257 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1260 New emacs UI features
1261 ---------------------
1263 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1265 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1266 starting with "tag:".
1268 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1270 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1271 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1273 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1275 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1277 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1279 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1280 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1285 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1287 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1289 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1290 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1291 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1292 requires a database rebuild:
1294 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1295 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1297 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1299 New collection of add-on tools
1300 ------------------------------
1302 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1303 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1304 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1307 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1309 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1310 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1311 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1313 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1314 ========================
1316 New, general features
1317 ---------------------
1319 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1321 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1322 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1323 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1324 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1325 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1332 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1333 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1335 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1339 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1340 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1341 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1344 Python bindings changes
1345 -----------------------
1347 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1349 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1350 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1351 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1352 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1353 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1354 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1356 Ruby bindings changes
1357 ---------------------
1359 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1360 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1361 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1362 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1367 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1369 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1370 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1372 Reply formatting cleanup
1373 ------------------------
1375 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1376 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1378 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1379 ========================
1381 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1383 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1384 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1385 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1386 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1389 Improved Build system portability
1391 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1392 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1393 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1395 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1397 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1399 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1401 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1402 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1403 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1405 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1406 ========================
1408 Vim interface improvements
1409 --------------------------
1411 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1413 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1414 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1415 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1416 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1417 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1419 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1421 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1422 * fix compose temp file name
1424 Python Bindings changes
1425 -----------------------
1427 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1429 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1430 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1432 Build-System improvements
1433 -------------------------
1435 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1437 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1440 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1441 ==========================
1446 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1448 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1449 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1451 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1452 =======================
1454 New, general features
1455 ---------------------
1457 Folder-based searching
1459 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1460 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1461 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1465 For example, one might use things such as:
1471 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1472 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1474 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1475 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1476 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1477 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1479 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1480 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1481 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1484 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1485 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1487 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1489 Support for PGP/MIME
1491 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1492 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1493 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1495 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1497 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1498 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1500 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1501 notmuch will receive these tags.
1503 New command-line features
1504 -------------------------
1506 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1508 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1509 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1511 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1513 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1514 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1515 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1517 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1519 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1520 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1521 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1522 which parts a signature part applies).
1524 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1526 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1527 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1528 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1529 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1530 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1533 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1535 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1536 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1537 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1538 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1539 by translating it internally to the new call.
1541 Performance improvements
1542 ------------------------
1544 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1546 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1547 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1548 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1550 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1551 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1553 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1555 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1556 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1557 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1559 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1560 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1561 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1562 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1564 Faster initial indexing
1566 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1567 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1568 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1570 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1572 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1573 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1574 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1575 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1577 New emacs-interface features
1578 ----------------------------
1580 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1582 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1583 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1584 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1585 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1586 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1587 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1589 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1591 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1592 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1593 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1594 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1596 User-selectable From address
1598 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1599 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1600 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1601 will prompt for the from address to use.
1603 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1604 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1605 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1607 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1608 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1609 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1612 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1614 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1615 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1617 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1619 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1621 ----- Original Message -----
1623 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1624 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1625 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1626 citations work much like conventional citations.
1628 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1630 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1631 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1632 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1633 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1634 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1636 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1637 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1639 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1641 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1642 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1643 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1645 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1647 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1648 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1649 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1650 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1651 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1653 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1655 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1658 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1660 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1662 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1664 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1667 Vim interface improvements
1668 --------------------------
1670 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1672 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1673 * Implementing archive in show view
1674 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1675 * Add delete commands
1678 Bindings improvements
1679 ---------------------
1681 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1683 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1684 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1686 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1688 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1692 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1693 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1694 `list(Messages)` works now
1695 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1697 These allow, for example:
1699 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1701 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1703 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1709 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1711 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1714 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1716 New build-system features
1717 -------------------------
1719 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1721 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1722 the configure script from some other directory:
1729 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1731 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1732 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1733 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1734 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1735 manual invocation of configure.
1737 New test-suite feature
1738 ----------------------
1740 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1742 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1743 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1744 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1745 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1746 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1749 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1751 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1752 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1753 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1754 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1755 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1756 are updated to take advantage of this.
1758 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1760 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1761 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1762 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1763 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1769 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1771 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1772 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1773 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1775 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1777 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1779 to:user@elsewhere.com
1781 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1783 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1785 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1787 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1788 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1789 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1792 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1793 from the Received headers in some cases
1795 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1796 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1798 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1800 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1802 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1804 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1805 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1806 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1808 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1809 -------------------------
1811 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1813 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1814 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1815 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1817 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1819 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1820 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1821 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1824 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1826 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1827 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1828 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1829 fixed to avoid this bug.
1831 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1833 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1834 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1836 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1837 ========================
1839 New, general features
1840 ---------------------
1842 Maildir-flag synchronization
1844 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1845 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1854 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1856 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1857 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1858 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1859 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1861 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1862 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1863 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1864 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1867 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1869 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1870 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1871 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1873 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1874 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1876 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1877 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1879 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1880 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1881 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1883 New library features
1884 --------------------
1886 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1888 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1889 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1890 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1891 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1893 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1894 message with the new function:
1896 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1898 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1899 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1900 over all available filenames for a given message.
1902 New command-line features
1903 -------------------------
1905 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1907 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1908 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1909 access to the mail store itself.
1911 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1912 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1913 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1914 name of a script containing:
1916 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1918 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1919 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1925 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1927 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1929 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1931 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1932 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1933 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1934 now produces nothing).
1936 Emacs interface improvements
1937 ----------------------------
1939 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1941 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1943 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1945 Display current thread subject in a header line
1947 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1949 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1951 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1952 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1953 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1954 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1955 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1956 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1957 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1959 Vim interface improvements
1960 --------------------------
1962 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1964 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1965 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1971 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1973 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1974 ========================
1976 New command-line features
1977 -------------------------
1979 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1981 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1982 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1983 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1985 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1986 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1987 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1988 scripts. For example:
1990 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1991 <operations-on> "$file"
1994 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1996 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1997 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1998 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1999 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2000 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2001 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2003 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2005 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2006 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2007 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2008 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2010 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2012 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2013 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2014 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2015 default rather than Bcc.
2017 New library features
2018 --------------------
2020 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2022 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2023 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2028 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2030 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2031 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2032 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2033 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2034 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2035 notmuch customize interface.
2037 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2039 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2040 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2041 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2042 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2044 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2046 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2047 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2048 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2049 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2051 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2053 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2054 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2055 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2056 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2057 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2058 notmuch customize interface.
2060 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2062 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2063 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2064 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2065 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2066 notmuch customize interface.
2068 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2070 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2071 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2072 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2073 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2076 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2078 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2079 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2080 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2083 New build-system features
2084 -------------------------
2086 Various portability fixes have been applied
2088 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2089 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2090 more portable than ever before.
2092 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2094 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2095 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2096 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2098 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2099 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2100 automatically run ldconfig.
2102 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2103 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2104 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2106 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2107 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2108 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2109 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2111 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2113 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2114 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2115 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2116 used in the resulting Makefile.
2118 New test-suite features
2119 -----------------------
2121 New modularization of test suite
2123 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2124 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2125 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2126 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2127 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2128 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2129 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2130 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2132 New testing of emacs interface
2134 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2135 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2136 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2137 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2138 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2139 database via the FCC setting.
2144 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2146 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2147 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2148 persistent error of the form:
2150 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2152 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2153 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2155 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2157 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2158 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2159 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2161 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2163 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2164 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2165 parsing the notmuch results).
2167 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2169 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2172 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2173 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2174 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2179 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2181 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2182 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2183 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2184 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2185 the emacs interface.
2187 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2189 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2190 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2191 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2193 Python-binding fixes
2194 --------------------
2196 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2198 Debian-specific fixes
2199 ---------------------
2201 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2203 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2204 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2205 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2208 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2209 ==========================
2214 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2216 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2217 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2218 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2219 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2221 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2223 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2224 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2225 want notmuch to crash.
2230 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2232 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2233 directory does not exist
2238 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2240 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2241 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2243 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2244 ========================
2246 New command-line features
2247 -------------------------
2249 User-configurable tags for new messages
2251 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2252 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2253 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2254 to specify this value.
2256 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2258 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2259 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2260 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2262 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2264 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2265 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2267 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2269 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2270 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2271 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2272 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2273 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2276 Indication of author names that match a search
2278 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2279 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2280 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2281 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2282 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2283 messages in the thread are listed first.
2285 New: Python bindings
2286 --------------------
2288 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2289 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2290 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2291 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2293 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2294 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2295 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2298 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2299 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2300 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2302 Emacs interface improvements
2303 ----------------------------
2305 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2307 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2308 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2309 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2310 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2311 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2312 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2313 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2314 but without any of the disadvantages).
2316 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2317 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2318 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2321 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2322 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2323 instead running something like:
2325 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2327 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2328 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2329 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2332 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2334 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2335 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2336 tweaked by the user.
2338 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2339 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2340 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2343 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2344 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2345 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2348 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2350 This support currently relies on an external program,
2351 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2352 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2353 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2354 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2355 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2358 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2359 notmuch) is available via:
2361 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2363 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2364 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2365 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2367 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2369 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2370 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2371 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2372 making this automatic in a future release.
2374 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2376 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2377 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2378 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2379 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2380 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2381 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2384 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2386 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2387 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2388 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2390 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2392 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2393 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2394 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2396 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2397 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2398 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2399 other representation.
2401 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2402 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2405 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2407 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2408 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2409 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2411 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2412 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2413 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2415 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2417 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2418 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2419 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2420 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2421 to display the search result.
2423 More flexible handling of header visibility
2425 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2426 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2427 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2428 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2429 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2430 with the 'h' keybinding.
2432 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2433 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2434 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2436 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2438 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2440 Customizable formatting of search results
2442 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2443 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2444 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2446 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2448 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2450 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2455 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2457 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2458 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2459 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2460 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2466 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2468 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2469 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2471 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2473 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2474 accept are now all accepted.
2479 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2481 Better display of output from failed tests
2483 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2484 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2486 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2487 ========================
2489 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2490 detailed release notes this time!
2492 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2493 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2495 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2496 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2497 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2498 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2505 Better guessing of From: header
2507 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2508 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2509 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2510 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2511 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2514 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2516 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2517 guaranteed to match all messages.
2519 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2521 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2522 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2523 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2524 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2525 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2528 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2531 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2532 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2533 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2534 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2539 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2541 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2542 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2543 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2544 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2546 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2548 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2550 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2551 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2552 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2554 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2556 Previously, the user might see:
2558 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2562 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2564 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2565 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2566 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2567 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2569 Emacs client features
2570 ---------------------
2572 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2574 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2575 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2576 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2577 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2578 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2580 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2583 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2584 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2585 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2586 search with the '*' binding.
2588 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2590 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2591 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2594 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2596 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2597 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2598 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2600 Build-system features
2601 ---------------------
2603 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2605 Add support to configure for many standard options
2607 We include actual support for:
2609 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2611 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2613 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2614 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2616 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2617 separate "make install-emacs"
2619 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2621 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2622 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2623 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2625 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2628 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2629 ========================
2631 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2633 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2634 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2636 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2637 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2638 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2639 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2640 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2641 tags from messages in a thread.
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