1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
22 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
23 notmuch_database_destroy
28 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
29 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
30 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
31 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
32 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
33 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
38 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
39 from the config file. Use something like:
43 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
44 "footer": "</body></html>",
53 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
58 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
59 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
60 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
62 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
63 ===========================
68 Portability and bug fixes for test suite to improve compatibility with Emacs 24.4, gdb 7.8, and the ppc64el architecture.
70 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
71 ===========================
73 This is a bug fix and portability release.
78 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
80 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
82 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
84 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
86 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
92 Use --quick when starting emacs
94 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
96 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
98 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
100 Command-Line Interface
101 ----------------------
103 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
104 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
109 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
111 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
112 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
114 Fix for phrase indexing
116 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
117 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
118 will affect only newly indexed messages.
123 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
125 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
126 unintentionally removed.
128 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
129 =========================
134 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
135 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
136 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
137 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
138 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
139 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
140 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
141 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
142 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
148 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
150 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
151 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
152 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
153 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
154 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
155 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
156 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
157 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
159 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
161 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
162 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
163 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
164 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
167 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
169 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
170 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
171 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
172 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
173 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
174 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
175 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
180 Notmuch database upgrade
182 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
183 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
184 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
185 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
186 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
187 released version of Notmuch before now.
189 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
191 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
192 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
193 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
194 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
196 Message header parsing changes
198 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
199 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
200 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
201 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
202 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
203 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
205 Command-Line Interface
206 ----------------------
208 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
210 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
212 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
214 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
216 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
218 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
219 user does not want it.
221 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
223 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
224 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
225 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
226 support formatted output.
228 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
230 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
231 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
232 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
240 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
241 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
242 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
243 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
244 `~/.emacs` with these.
246 Changed format for saved searches
248 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
249 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
250 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
251 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
254 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
255 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
256 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
257 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
259 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
260 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
261 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
263 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
264 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
265 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
266 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
267 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
269 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
271 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
272 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
273 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
275 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
277 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
278 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
279 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
280 message had been unread).
282 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
283 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
284 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
285 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
287 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
288 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
289 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
291 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
292 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
293 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
294 to tags already present.
298 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
299 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
300 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
301 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
302 these differ from each other.
303 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
305 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
307 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
308 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
309 for these Emacs versions.
311 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
313 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
314 newlines before calling notmuch count.
316 Bug fixes for sender identities
318 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
319 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
320 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
322 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
324 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
325 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
326 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
327 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
329 Reply pushes mark before signature
331 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
332 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
333 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
335 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
337 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
338 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
344 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
345 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
347 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
348 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
349 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
350 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
352 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
353 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
354 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
355 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
356 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
358 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
360 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
361 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
363 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
364 =========================
366 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
367 ---------------------------------------
369 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
370 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
371 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
372 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
373 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
374 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
375 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
379 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
380 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
382 Command-Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
387 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
388 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
389 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
390 print for each message.
392 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
393 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
394 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
395 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
397 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
399 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
400 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
401 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
403 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
405 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
406 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
407 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
408 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
410 `notmuch compact` command
412 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
413 functionality through a more convenient interface than
414 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
415 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
416 move the compacted database into place.
421 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
423 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
424 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
425 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
426 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
427 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
428 and multiple threads.
432 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
434 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
435 search, show and tree mode itself)
437 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
440 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
441 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
443 Customising `notmuch-tree`
445 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
446 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
447 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
448 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
449 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
450 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
451 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
453 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
455 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
456 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
457 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
458 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
459 thread when the search was performed.
461 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
463 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
464 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
465 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
467 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
469 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
470 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
473 Built-in help improvements
475 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
476 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
477 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
479 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
481 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
482 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
483 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
485 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
487 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
488 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
490 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
492 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
493 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
494 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
495 to move some of them to the common keymap.
497 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
499 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
500 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
501 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
502 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
504 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
506 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
507 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
508 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
510 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
512 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
513 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
514 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
516 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
518 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
519 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
520 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
521 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
522 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
524 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
526 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
527 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
528 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
529 the body part of the message.
534 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
535 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
536 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
538 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
539 =========================
541 Command-Line Interface
542 ----------------------
544 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
546 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
547 folder and notmuch index.
549 `notmuch count --batch` option
551 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
552 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
554 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
556 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
557 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
558 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
561 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
563 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
564 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
565 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
566 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
567 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
570 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
572 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
573 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
575 Top level option to specify configuration file
577 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
578 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
580 Bash command-line completion
582 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
583 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
584 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
585 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
586 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
587 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
588 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
589 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
590 bash-completion package.
592 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
597 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
599 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
600 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
601 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
602 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
603 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
604 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
605 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
606 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
608 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
610 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
611 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
612 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
614 Key bindings for next/previous thread
616 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
617 previous thread in the search results.
619 Better handling of errors in search buffers
621 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
622 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
624 Faster search and show
626 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
627 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
628 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
629 threads should show faster.
633 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
634 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
635 in question was now removed from this release.
640 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
641 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
646 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
648 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
649 ===========================
654 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
656 Internal test framework changes
657 -------------------------------
659 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
662 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
663 ===========================
665 Internal test framework changes
666 -------------------------------
668 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
669 build failures in non-interactive environments.
671 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
672 =========================
677 Date range search support
679 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
680 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
681 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
682 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
683 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
686 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
688 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
689 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
690 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
691 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
692 but may be removed in a future release.
694 Command-Line Interface
695 ----------------------
697 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
699 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
700 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
702 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
704 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
705 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
706 officially deprecated.
708 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
710 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
711 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
712 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
714 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
716 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
717 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
720 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
721 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
724 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
726 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
727 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
728 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
730 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
732 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
733 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
734 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
736 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
738 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
739 output separated by null characters rather than newline
740 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
741 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
746 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
748 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
749 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
750 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
751 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
753 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
755 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
756 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
757 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
758 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
759 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
760 the behavior of this, see
761 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
762 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
764 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
765 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
766 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
768 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
770 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
771 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
774 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
776 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
777 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
778 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
779 simply displayed in place of the message.
781 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
783 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
784 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
786 Improved text/calendar content handling
788 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
789 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
790 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
791 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
793 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
795 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
796 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
797 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
798 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
800 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
802 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
803 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
804 for HTML email containing images.
806 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
808 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
810 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
812 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
815 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
817 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
818 the point where it was.
820 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
822 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
823 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
824 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
825 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
826 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
828 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
830 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
831 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
832 thread instead of the message id.
834 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
835 -----------------------------
837 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
838 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
839 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
840 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
841 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
842 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
843 further details and installation.
848 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
850 Internal test framework changes
851 -------------------------------
853 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
855 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
856 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
857 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
858 can result in buggy behavior.
860 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
861 =========================
866 Maildir tag synchronization
868 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
869 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
870 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
871 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
872 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
873 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
876 Command-Line Interface
877 ----------------------
879 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
880 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
881 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
882 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
883 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
889 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
891 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
893 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
894 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
895 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
897 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
899 It is now possible to embed newlines in
900 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
903 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
905 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
906 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
907 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
908 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
909 inside the result or message.
911 Search now uses the JSON format internally
913 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
914 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
916 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
917 user-specified formatting
919 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
920 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
921 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
922 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
923 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
925 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
926 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
928 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
929 ===========================
934 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
935 compilation error for this contrib package.
937 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
938 ===========================
943 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
945 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
946 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
947 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
948 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
950 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
951 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
954 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
955 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
956 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
957 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
960 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
962 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
965 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
966 =========================
968 Command-Line Interface
969 ----------------------
973 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
974 for a reply message and full information about the original message
975 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
976 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
978 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
979 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
980 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
981 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
985 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
986 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
988 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
989 tag in your query, for example:
991 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
993 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
994 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
996 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
997 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
999 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1001 Raw show format changes
1003 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1004 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1005 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1006 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1007 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1008 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1009 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1010 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1012 Listing configuration items
1014 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1020 Changes to tagging interface
1022 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1023 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1024 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1025 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1026 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1027 for more information.
1029 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1030 may need to update in custom configurations.
1032 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1034 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1035 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1036 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1037 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1040 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1041 -----------------------------
1043 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1044 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1045 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1046 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1047 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1048 contrib/ from now on.
1053 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1054 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1056 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1057 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1059 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1060 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1061 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1063 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1064 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1066 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1067 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1068 returning the new database object or directory object.
1075 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1076 compatible with go 1.
1078 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1079 =========================
1081 Command-Line Interface
1082 ----------------------
1086 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1087 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1088 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1089 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1091 Mail store folder/file ignore
1093 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1094 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1095 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1097 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1098 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1100 Unified help and manual pages
1102 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1103 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1106 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1108 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1109 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1117 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1118 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1119 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1120 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1122 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1124 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1125 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1127 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1130 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1131 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1132 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1134 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1136 should be changed to:
1138 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1140 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1142 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1143 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1145 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1147 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1148 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1149 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1150 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1151 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1152 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1156 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1157 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1158 of Mailing List Archives.
1160 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1162 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1163 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1166 Show view archiving key binding changes
1168 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1169 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1170 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1171 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1172 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1175 Support text/calendar MIME type
1177 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1180 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1182 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1183 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1184 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1185 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1187 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1189 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1190 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1191 messages blue by default in the search view.
1195 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1196 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1203 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1206 Python bindings changes
1207 -----------------------
1209 Python 3.2 compatibility
1211 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1213 Added missing unicode conversions
1215 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1216 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1217 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1222 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1224 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1225 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1226 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1227 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1228 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1230 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1231 ===========================
1236 Fix error handling in python bindings
1238 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1239 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1240 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1241 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1243 Quote MML tags in replies
1245 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1246 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1247 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1248 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1249 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1250 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1251 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1252 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1254 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1255 =========================
1257 Command-Line Interface
1258 ----------------------
1262 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1263 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1264 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1265 importing new messages into the database.
1267 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1269 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1270 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1271 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1276 Automatic tag query optimization
1278 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1279 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1280 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1282 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1284 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1285 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1286 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1291 Reduction of memory leaks
1293 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1294 and fixed in this release.
1301 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1302 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1303 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1306 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1308 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1309 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1310 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1313 Improvements in saved search management
1315 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1316 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1317 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1319 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1321 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1322 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1323 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1325 New face for crypto parts headers
1327 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1328 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1329 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1332 Use space as default thousands separator
1334 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1335 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1336 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1338 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1339 buttonized id: links
1341 New function notmuch-show-advance
1343 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1344 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1345 be bound to SPC with:
1347 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1349 Various performance improvements
1354 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1355 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1358 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1359 ===========================
1364 Fix crash in python bindings
1366 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1367 for some, but not all users.
1369 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1370 ===========================
1375 Fix `--help` argument
1377 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1378 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1379 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1381 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1382 =========================
1384 New build and testing features
1385 ------------------------------
1387 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1388 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1389 prerequisites is improved.
1391 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1393 New command-line features
1394 -------------------------
1396 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1398 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1399 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1402 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1404 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1405 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1406 favour of using stdout.
1408 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1410 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1411 limit the number of results shown.
1413 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1415 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1416 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1419 New emacs UI features
1420 ---------------------
1422 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1424 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1425 starting with "tag:".
1427 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1429 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1430 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1432 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1434 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1436 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1438 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1439 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1444 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1446 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1448 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1449 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1450 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1451 requires a database rebuild:
1453 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1454 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1456 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1458 New collection of add-on tools
1459 ------------------------------
1461 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1462 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1463 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1466 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1468 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1469 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1470 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1472 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1473 ========================
1475 New, general features
1476 ---------------------
1478 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1480 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1481 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1482 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1483 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1484 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1491 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1492 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1494 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1498 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1499 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1500 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1503 Python bindings changes
1504 -----------------------
1506 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1508 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1509 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1510 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1511 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1512 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1513 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1515 Ruby bindings changes
1516 ---------------------
1518 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1519 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1520 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1521 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1526 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1528 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1529 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1531 Reply formatting cleanup
1532 ------------------------
1534 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1535 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1537 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1538 ========================
1540 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1542 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1543 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1544 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1545 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1548 Improved Build system portability
1550 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1551 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1552 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1554 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1556 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1558 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1560 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1561 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1562 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1564 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1565 ========================
1567 Vim interface improvements
1568 --------------------------
1570 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1572 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1573 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1574 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1575 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1576 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1578 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1580 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1581 * fix compose temp file name
1583 Python Bindings changes
1584 -----------------------
1586 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1588 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1589 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1591 Build-System improvements
1592 -------------------------
1594 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1596 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1599 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1600 ==========================
1605 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1607 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1608 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1610 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1611 =======================
1613 New, general features
1614 ---------------------
1616 Folder-based searching
1618 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1619 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1620 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1624 For example, one might use things such as:
1630 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1631 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1633 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1634 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1635 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1636 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1638 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1639 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1640 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1643 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1644 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1646 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1648 Support for PGP/MIME
1650 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1651 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1652 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1654 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1656 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1657 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1659 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1660 notmuch will receive these tags.
1662 New command-line features
1663 -------------------------
1665 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1667 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1668 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1670 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1672 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1673 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1674 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1676 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1678 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1679 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1680 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1681 which parts a signature part applies).
1683 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1685 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1686 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1687 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1688 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1689 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1692 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1694 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1695 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1696 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1697 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1698 by translating it internally to the new call.
1700 Performance improvements
1701 ------------------------
1703 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1705 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1706 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1707 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1709 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1710 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1712 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1714 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1715 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1716 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1718 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1719 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1720 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1721 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1723 Faster initial indexing
1725 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1726 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1727 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1729 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1731 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1732 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1733 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1734 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1736 New emacs-interface features
1737 ----------------------------
1739 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1741 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1742 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1743 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1744 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1745 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1746 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1748 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1750 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1751 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1752 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1753 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1755 User-selectable From address
1757 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1758 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1759 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1760 will prompt for the from address to use.
1762 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1763 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1764 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1766 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1767 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1768 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1771 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1773 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1774 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1776 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1778 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1780 ----- Original Message -----
1782 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1783 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1784 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1785 citations work much like conventional citations.
1787 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1789 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1790 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1791 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1792 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1793 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1795 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1796 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1798 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1800 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1801 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1802 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1804 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1806 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1807 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1808 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1809 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1810 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1812 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1814 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1817 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1819 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1821 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1823 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1826 Vim interface improvements
1827 --------------------------
1829 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1831 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1832 * Implementing archive in show view
1833 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1834 * Add delete commands
1837 Bindings improvements
1838 ---------------------
1840 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1842 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1843 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1845 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1847 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1851 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1852 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1853 `list(Messages)` works now
1854 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1856 These allow, for example:
1858 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1860 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1862 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1868 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1870 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1873 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1875 New build-system features
1876 -------------------------
1878 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1880 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1881 the configure script from some other directory:
1888 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1890 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1891 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1892 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1893 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1894 manual invocation of configure.
1896 New test-suite feature
1897 ----------------------
1899 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1901 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1902 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1903 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1904 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1905 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1908 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1910 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1911 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1912 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1913 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1914 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1915 are updated to take advantage of this.
1917 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1919 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1920 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1921 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1922 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1928 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1930 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1931 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1932 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1934 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1936 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1938 to:user@elsewhere.com
1940 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1942 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1944 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1946 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1947 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1948 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1951 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1952 from the Received headers in some cases
1954 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1955 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1957 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1959 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1961 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1963 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1964 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1965 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1967 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1968 -------------------------
1970 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1972 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1973 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1974 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1976 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1978 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1979 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1980 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1983 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1985 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1986 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1987 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1988 fixed to avoid this bug.
1990 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1992 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1993 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1995 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1996 ========================
1998 New, general features
1999 ---------------------
2001 Maildir-flag synchronization
2003 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2004 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2013 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2015 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2016 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2017 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2018 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2020 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2021 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2022 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2023 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2026 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2028 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2029 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2030 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2032 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2033 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2035 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2036 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2038 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2039 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2040 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2042 New library features
2043 --------------------
2045 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2047 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2048 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2049 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2050 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2052 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2053 message with the new function:
2055 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2057 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2058 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2059 over all available filenames for a given message.
2061 New command-line features
2062 -------------------------
2064 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2066 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2067 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2068 access to the mail store itself.
2070 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2071 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2072 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2073 name of a script containing:
2075 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2077 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2078 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2084 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2086 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2088 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2090 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2091 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2092 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2093 now produces nothing).
2095 Emacs interface improvements
2096 ----------------------------
2098 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2100 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2102 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2104 Display current thread subject in a header line
2106 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2108 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2110 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2111 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2112 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2113 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2114 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2115 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2116 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2118 Vim interface improvements
2119 --------------------------
2121 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2123 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2124 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2130 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2132 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2133 ========================
2135 New command-line features
2136 -------------------------
2138 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2140 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2141 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2142 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2144 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2145 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2146 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2147 scripts. For example:
2149 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2150 <operations-on> "$file"
2153 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2155 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2156 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2157 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2158 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2159 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2160 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2162 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2164 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2165 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2166 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2167 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2169 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2171 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2172 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2173 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2174 default rather than Bcc.
2176 New library features
2177 --------------------
2179 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2181 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2182 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2187 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2189 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2190 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2191 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2192 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2193 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2194 notmuch customize interface.
2196 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2198 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2199 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2200 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2201 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2203 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2205 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2206 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2207 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2208 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2210 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2212 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2213 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2214 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2215 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2216 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2217 notmuch customize interface.
2219 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2221 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2222 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2223 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2224 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2225 notmuch customize interface.
2227 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2229 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2230 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2231 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2232 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2235 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2237 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2238 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2239 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2242 New build-system features
2243 -------------------------
2245 Various portability fixes have been applied
2247 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2248 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2249 more portable than ever before.
2251 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2253 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2254 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2255 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2257 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2258 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2259 automatically run ldconfig.
2261 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2262 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2263 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2265 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2266 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2267 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2268 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2270 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2272 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2273 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2274 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2275 used in the resulting Makefile.
2277 New test-suite features
2278 -----------------------
2280 New modularization of test suite
2282 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2283 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2284 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2285 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2286 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2287 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2288 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2289 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2291 New testing of emacs interface
2293 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2294 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2295 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2296 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2297 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2298 database via the FCC setting.
2303 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2305 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2306 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2307 persistent error of the form:
2309 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2311 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2312 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2314 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2316 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2317 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2318 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2320 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2322 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2323 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2324 parsing the notmuch results).
2326 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2328 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2331 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2332 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2333 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2338 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2340 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2341 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2342 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2343 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2344 the emacs interface.
2346 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2348 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2349 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2350 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2352 Python-binding fixes
2353 --------------------
2355 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2357 Debian-specific fixes
2358 ---------------------
2360 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2362 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2363 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2364 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2367 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2368 ==========================
2373 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2375 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2376 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2377 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2378 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2380 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2382 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2383 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2384 want notmuch to crash.
2389 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2391 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2392 directory does not exist
2397 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2399 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2400 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2402 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2403 ========================
2405 New command-line features
2406 -------------------------
2408 User-configurable tags for new messages
2410 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2411 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2412 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2413 to specify this value.
2415 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2417 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2418 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2419 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2421 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2423 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2424 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2426 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2428 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2429 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2430 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2431 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2432 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2435 Indication of author names that match a search
2437 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2438 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2439 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2440 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2441 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2442 messages in the thread are listed first.
2444 New: Python bindings
2445 --------------------
2447 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2448 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2449 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2450 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2452 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2453 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2454 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2457 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2458 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2459 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2461 Emacs interface improvements
2462 ----------------------------
2464 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2466 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2467 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2468 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2469 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2470 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2471 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2472 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2473 but without any of the disadvantages).
2475 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2476 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2477 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2480 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2481 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2482 instead running something like:
2484 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2486 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2487 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2488 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2491 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2493 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2494 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2495 tweaked by the user.
2497 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2498 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2499 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2502 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2503 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2504 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2507 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2509 This support currently relies on an external program,
2510 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2511 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2512 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2513 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2514 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2517 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2518 notmuch) is available via:
2520 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2522 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2523 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2524 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2526 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2528 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2529 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2530 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2531 making this automatic in a future release.
2533 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2535 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2536 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2537 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2538 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2539 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2540 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2543 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2545 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2546 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2547 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2549 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2551 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2552 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2553 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2555 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2556 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2557 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2558 other representation.
2560 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2561 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2564 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2566 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2567 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2568 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2570 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2571 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2572 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2574 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2576 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2577 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2578 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2579 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2580 to display the search result.
2582 More flexible handling of header visibility
2584 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2585 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2586 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2587 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2588 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2589 with the 'h' keybinding.
2591 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2592 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2593 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2595 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2597 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2599 Customizable formatting of search results
2601 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2602 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2603 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2605 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2607 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2609 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2614 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2616 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2617 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2618 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2619 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2625 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2627 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2628 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2630 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2632 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2633 accept are now all accepted.
2638 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2640 Better display of output from failed tests
2642 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2643 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2645 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2646 ========================
2648 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2649 detailed release notes this time!
2651 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2652 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2654 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2655 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2656 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2657 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2664 Better guessing of From: header
2666 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2667 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2668 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2669 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2670 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2673 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2675 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2676 guaranteed to match all messages.
2678 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2680 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2681 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2682 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2683 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2684 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2687 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2690 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2691 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2692 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2693 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2698 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2700 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2701 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2702 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2703 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2705 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2707 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2709 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2710 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2711 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2713 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2715 Previously, the user might see:
2717 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2721 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2723 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2724 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2725 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2726 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2728 Emacs client features
2729 ---------------------
2731 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2733 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2734 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2735 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2736 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2737 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2739 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2742 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2743 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2744 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2745 search with the '*' binding.
2747 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2749 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2750 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2753 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2755 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2756 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2757 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2759 Build-system features
2760 ---------------------
2762 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2764 Add support to configure for many standard options
2766 We include actual support for:
2768 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2770 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2772 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2773 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2775 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2776 separate "make install-emacs"
2778 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2780 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2781 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2782 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2784 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2787 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2788 ========================
2790 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2792 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2793 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2795 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2796 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2797 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2798 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2799 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2800 tags from messages in a thread.
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