1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
20 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
21 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
22 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
23 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
24 `~/.emacs` with these.
26 Changed format for saved searches
28 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
29 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
30 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
31 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
34 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
35 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
36 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
37 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
39 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
40 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
41 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
43 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
44 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
45 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
46 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
47 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
49 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
51 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
52 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
53 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
55 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
57 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
58 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
59 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
60 message had been unread).
62 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
63 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
64 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
65 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
67 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
68 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
69 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
71 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
72 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
73 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
74 to tags already present.
78 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
79 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
80 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
81 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
82 these differ from each other.
83 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
85 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
87 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
88 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
89 for these Emacs versions.
91 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
93 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
94 newlines before calling notmuch count.
96 Bug fixes for sender identities
98 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
99 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
100 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
105 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
106 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
108 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
109 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
110 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
111 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
113 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
114 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
115 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
116 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
117 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
119 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
121 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
122 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
124 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
125 =========================
127 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
128 ---------------------------------------
130 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
131 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
132 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
133 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
134 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
135 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
136 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
140 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
141 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
143 Command-Line Interface
144 ----------------------
146 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
148 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
149 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
150 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
151 print for each message.
153 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
154 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
155 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
156 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
158 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
160 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
161 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
162 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
164 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
166 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
167 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
168 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
169 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
171 `notmuch compact` command
173 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
174 functionality through a more convenient interface than
175 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
176 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
177 move the compacted database into place.
182 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
184 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
185 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
186 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
187 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
188 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
189 and multiple threads.
193 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
195 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
196 search, show and tree mode itself)
198 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
201 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
202 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
204 Customising `notmuch-tree`
206 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
207 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
208 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
209 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
210 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
211 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
212 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
214 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
216 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
217 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
218 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
219 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
220 thread when the search was performed.
222 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
224 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
225 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
226 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
228 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
230 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
231 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
234 Built-in help improvements
236 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
237 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
238 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
240 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
242 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
243 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
244 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
246 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
248 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
249 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
251 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
253 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
254 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
255 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
256 to move some of them to the common keymap.
258 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
260 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
261 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
262 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
263 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
265 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
267 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
268 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
269 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
271 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
273 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
274 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
275 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
277 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
279 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
280 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
281 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
282 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
283 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
285 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
287 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
288 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
289 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
290 the body part of the message.
295 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
296 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
297 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
299 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
300 =========================
302 Command-Line Interface
303 ----------------------
305 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
307 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
308 folder and notmuch index.
310 `notmuch count --batch` option
312 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
313 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
315 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
317 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
318 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
319 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
322 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
324 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
325 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
326 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
327 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
328 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
331 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
333 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
334 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
336 Top level option to specify configuration file
338 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
339 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
341 Bash command-line completion
343 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
344 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
345 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
346 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
347 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
348 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
349 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
350 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
351 bash-completion package.
353 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
358 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
360 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
361 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
362 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
363 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
364 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
365 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
366 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
367 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
369 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
371 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
372 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
373 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
375 Key bindings for next/previous thread
377 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
378 previous thread in the search results.
380 Better handling of errors in search buffers
382 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
383 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
385 Faster search and show
387 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
388 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
389 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
390 threads should show faster.
394 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
395 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
396 in question was now removed from this release.
401 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
402 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
407 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
409 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
410 ===========================
415 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
417 Internal test framework changes
418 -------------------------------
420 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
423 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
424 ===========================
426 Internal test framework changes
427 -------------------------------
429 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
430 build failures in non-interactive environments.
432 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
433 =========================
438 Date range search support
440 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
441 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
442 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
443 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
444 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
447 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
449 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
450 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
451 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
452 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
453 but may be removed in a future release.
455 Command-Line Interface
456 ----------------------
458 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
460 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
461 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
463 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
465 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
466 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
467 officially deprecated.
469 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
471 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
472 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
473 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
475 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
477 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
478 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
481 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
482 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
485 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
487 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
488 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
489 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
491 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
493 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
494 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
495 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
497 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
499 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
500 output separated by null characters rather than newline
501 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
502 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
507 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
509 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
510 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
511 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
512 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
514 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
516 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
517 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
518 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
519 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
520 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
521 the behavior of this, see
522 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
523 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
525 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
526 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
527 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
529 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
531 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
532 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
535 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
537 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
538 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
539 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
540 simply displayed in place of the message.
542 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
544 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
545 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
547 Improved text/calendar content handling
549 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
550 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
551 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
552 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
554 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
556 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
557 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
558 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
559 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
561 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
563 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
564 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
565 for HTML email containing images.
567 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
569 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
571 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
573 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
576 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
578 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
579 the point where it was.
581 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
583 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
584 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
585 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
586 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
587 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
589 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
591 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
592 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
593 thread instead of the message id.
595 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
596 -----------------------------
598 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
599 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
600 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
601 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
602 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
603 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
604 further details and installation.
609 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
611 Internal test framework changes
612 -------------------------------
614 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
616 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
617 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
618 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
619 can result in buggy behavior.
621 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
622 =========================
627 Maildir tag synchronization
629 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
630 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
631 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
632 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
633 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
634 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
637 Command-Line Interface
638 ----------------------
640 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
641 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
642 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
643 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
644 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
650 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
652 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
654 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
655 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
656 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
658 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
660 It is now possible to embed newlines in
661 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
664 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
666 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
667 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
668 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
669 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
670 inside the result or message.
672 Search now uses the JSON format internally
674 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
675 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
677 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
678 user-specified formatting
680 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
681 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
682 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
683 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
684 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
686 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
687 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
689 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
690 ===========================
695 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
696 compilation error for this contrib package.
698 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
699 ===========================
704 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
706 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
707 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
708 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
709 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
711 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
712 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
715 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
716 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
717 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
718 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
721 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
723 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
726 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
727 =========================
729 Command-Line Interface
730 ----------------------
734 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
735 for a reply message and full information about the original message
736 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
737 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
739 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
740 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
741 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
742 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
746 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
747 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
749 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
750 tag in your query, for example:
752 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
754 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
755 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
757 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
758 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
760 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
762 Raw show format changes
764 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
765 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
766 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
767 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
768 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
769 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
770 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
771 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
773 Listing configuration items
775 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
781 Changes to tagging interface
783 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
784 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
785 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
786 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
787 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
788 for more information.
790 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
791 may need to update in custom configurations.
793 Reply improvement using the JSON format
795 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
796 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
797 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
798 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
801 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
802 -----------------------------
804 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
805 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
806 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
807 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
808 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
809 contrib/ from now on.
814 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
815 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
817 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
818 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
820 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
821 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
822 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
824 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
825 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
827 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
828 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
829 returning the new database object or directory object.
836 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
837 compatible with go 1.
839 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
840 =========================
842 Command-Line Interface
843 ----------------------
847 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
848 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
849 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
850 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
852 Mail store folder/file ignore
854 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
855 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
856 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
858 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
859 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
861 Unified help and manual pages
863 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
864 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
867 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
869 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
870 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
878 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
879 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
880 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
881 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
883 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
885 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
886 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
888 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
891 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
892 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
893 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
895 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
897 should be changed to:
899 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
901 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
903 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
904 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
906 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
908 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
909 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
910 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
911 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
912 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
913 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
917 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
918 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
919 of Mailing List Archives.
921 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
923 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
924 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
927 Show view archiving key binding changes
929 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
930 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
931 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
932 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
933 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
936 Support text/calendar MIME type
938 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
941 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
943 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
944 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
945 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
946 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
948 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
950 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
951 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
952 messages blue by default in the search view.
956 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
957 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
964 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
967 Python bindings changes
968 -----------------------
970 Python 3.2 compatibility
972 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
974 Added missing unicode conversions
976 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
977 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
978 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
983 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
985 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
986 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
987 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
988 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
989 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
991 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
992 ===========================
997 Fix error handling in python bindings
999 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1000 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1001 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1002 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1004 Quote MML tags in replies
1006 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1007 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1008 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1009 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1010 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1011 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1012 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1013 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1015 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1016 =========================
1018 Command-Line Interface
1019 ----------------------
1023 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1024 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1025 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1026 importing new messages into the database.
1028 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1030 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1031 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1032 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1037 Automatic tag query optimization
1039 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1040 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1041 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1043 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1045 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1046 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1047 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1052 Reduction of memory leaks
1054 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1055 and fixed in this release.
1062 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1063 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1064 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1067 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1069 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1070 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1071 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1074 Improvements in saved search management
1076 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1077 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1078 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1080 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1082 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1083 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1084 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1086 New face for crypto parts headers
1088 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1089 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1090 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1093 Use space as default thousands separator
1095 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1096 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1097 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1099 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1100 buttonized id: links
1102 New function notmuch-show-advance
1104 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1105 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1106 be bound to SPC with:
1108 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1110 Various performance improvements
1115 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1116 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1119 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1120 ===========================
1125 Fix crash in python bindings
1127 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1128 for some, but not all users.
1130 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1131 ===========================
1136 Fix `--help` argument
1138 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1139 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1140 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1142 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1143 =========================
1145 New build and testing features
1146 ------------------------------
1148 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1149 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1150 prerequisites is improved.
1152 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1154 New command-line features
1155 -------------------------
1157 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1159 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1160 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1163 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1165 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1166 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1167 favour of using stdout.
1169 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1171 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1172 limit the number of results shown.
1174 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1176 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1177 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1180 New emacs UI features
1181 ---------------------
1183 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1185 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1186 starting with "tag:".
1188 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1190 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1191 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1193 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1195 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1197 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1199 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1200 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1205 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1207 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1209 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1210 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1211 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1212 requires a database rebuild:
1214 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1215 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1217 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1219 New collection of add-on tools
1220 ------------------------------
1222 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1223 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1224 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1227 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1229 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1230 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1231 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1233 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1234 ========================
1236 New, general features
1237 ---------------------
1239 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1241 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1242 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1243 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1244 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1245 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1252 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1253 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1255 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1259 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1260 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1261 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1264 Python bindings changes
1265 -----------------------
1267 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1269 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1270 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1271 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1272 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1273 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1274 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1276 Ruby bindings changes
1277 ---------------------
1279 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1280 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1281 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1282 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1287 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1289 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1290 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1292 Reply formatting cleanup
1293 ------------------------
1295 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1296 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1298 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1299 ========================
1301 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1303 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1304 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1305 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1306 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1309 Improved Build system portability
1311 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1312 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1313 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1315 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1317 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1319 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1321 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1322 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1323 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1325 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1326 ========================
1328 Vim interface improvements
1329 --------------------------
1331 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1333 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1334 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1335 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1336 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1337 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1339 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1341 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1342 * fix compose temp file name
1344 Python Bindings changes
1345 -----------------------
1347 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1349 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1350 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1352 Build-System improvements
1353 -------------------------
1355 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1357 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1360 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1361 ==========================
1366 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1368 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1369 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1371 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1372 =======================
1374 New, general features
1375 ---------------------
1377 Folder-based searching
1379 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1380 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1381 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1385 For example, one might use things such as:
1391 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1392 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1394 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1395 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1396 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1397 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1399 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1400 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1401 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1404 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1405 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1407 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1409 Support for PGP/MIME
1411 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1412 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1413 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1415 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1417 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1418 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1420 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1421 notmuch will receive these tags.
1423 New command-line features
1424 -------------------------
1426 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1428 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1429 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1431 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1433 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1434 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1435 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1437 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1439 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1440 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1441 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1442 which parts a signature part applies).
1444 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1446 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1447 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1448 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1449 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1450 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1453 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1455 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1456 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1457 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1458 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1459 by translating it internally to the new call.
1461 Performance improvements
1462 ------------------------
1464 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1466 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1467 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1468 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1470 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1471 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1473 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1475 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1476 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1477 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1479 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1480 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1481 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1482 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1484 Faster initial indexing
1486 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1487 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1488 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1490 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1492 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1493 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1494 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1495 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1497 New emacs-interface features
1498 ----------------------------
1500 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1502 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1503 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1504 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1505 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1506 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1507 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1509 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1511 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1512 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1513 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1514 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1516 User-selectable From address
1518 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1519 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1520 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1521 will prompt for the from address to use.
1523 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1524 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1525 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1527 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1528 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1529 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1532 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1534 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1535 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1537 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1539 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1541 ----- Original Message -----
1543 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1544 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1545 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1546 citations work much like conventional citations.
1548 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1550 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1551 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1552 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1553 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1554 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1556 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1557 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1559 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1561 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1562 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1563 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1565 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1567 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1568 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1569 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1570 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1571 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1573 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1575 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1578 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1580 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1582 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1584 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1587 Vim interface improvements
1588 --------------------------
1590 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1592 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1593 * Implementing archive in show view
1594 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1595 * Add delete commands
1598 Bindings improvements
1599 ---------------------
1601 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1603 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1604 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1606 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1608 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1612 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1613 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1614 `list(Messages)` works now
1615 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1617 These allow, for example:
1619 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1621 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1623 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1629 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1631 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1634 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1636 New build-system features
1637 -------------------------
1639 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1641 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1642 the configure script from some other directory:
1649 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1651 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1652 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1653 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1654 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1655 manual invocation of configure.
1657 New test-suite feature
1658 ----------------------
1660 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1662 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1663 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1664 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1665 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1666 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1669 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1671 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1672 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1673 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1674 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1675 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1676 are updated to take advantage of this.
1678 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1680 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1681 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1682 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1683 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1689 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1691 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1692 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1693 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1695 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1697 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1699 to:user@elsewhere.com
1701 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1703 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1705 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1707 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1708 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1709 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1712 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1713 from the Received headers in some cases
1715 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1716 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1718 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1720 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1722 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1724 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1725 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1726 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1728 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1729 -------------------------
1731 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1733 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1734 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1735 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1737 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1739 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1740 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1741 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1744 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1746 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1747 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1748 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1749 fixed to avoid this bug.
1751 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1753 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1754 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1756 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1757 ========================
1759 New, general features
1760 ---------------------
1762 Maildir-flag synchronization
1764 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1765 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1774 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1776 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1777 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1778 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1779 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1781 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1782 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1783 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1784 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1787 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1789 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1790 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1791 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1793 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1794 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1796 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1797 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1799 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1800 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1801 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1803 New library features
1804 --------------------
1806 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1808 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1809 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1810 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1811 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1813 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1814 message with the new function:
1816 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1818 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1819 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1820 over all available filenames for a given message.
1822 New command-line features
1823 -------------------------
1825 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1827 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1828 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1829 access to the mail store itself.
1831 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1832 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1833 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1834 name of a script containing:
1836 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1838 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1839 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1845 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1847 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1849 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1851 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1852 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1853 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1854 now produces nothing).
1856 Emacs interface improvements
1857 ----------------------------
1859 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1861 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1863 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1865 Display current thread subject in a header line
1867 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1869 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1871 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1872 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1873 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1874 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1875 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1876 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1877 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1879 Vim interface improvements
1880 --------------------------
1882 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1884 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1885 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1891 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1893 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1894 ========================
1896 New command-line features
1897 -------------------------
1899 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1901 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1902 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1903 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1905 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1906 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1907 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1908 scripts. For example:
1910 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1911 <operations-on> "$file"
1914 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1916 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1917 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1918 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1919 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1920 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1921 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1923 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1925 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1926 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1927 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1928 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1930 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1932 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1933 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1934 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1935 default rather than Bcc.
1937 New library features
1938 --------------------
1940 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1942 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1943 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1948 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1950 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1951 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1952 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1953 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1954 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1955 notmuch customize interface.
1957 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1959 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1960 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1961 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1962 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1964 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1966 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1967 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1968 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1969 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1971 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1973 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1974 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1975 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1976 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1977 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1978 notmuch customize interface.
1980 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1982 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1983 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1984 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1985 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1986 notmuch customize interface.
1988 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1990 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1991 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1992 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1993 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1996 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1998 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1999 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2000 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2003 New build-system features
2004 -------------------------
2006 Various portability fixes have been applied
2008 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2009 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2010 more portable than ever before.
2012 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2014 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2015 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2016 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2018 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2019 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2020 automatically run ldconfig.
2022 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2023 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2024 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2026 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2027 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2028 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2029 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2031 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2033 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2034 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2035 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2036 used in the resulting Makefile.
2038 New test-suite features
2039 -----------------------
2041 New modularization of test suite
2043 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2044 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2045 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2046 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2047 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2048 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2049 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2050 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2052 New testing of emacs interface
2054 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2055 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2056 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2057 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2058 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2059 database via the FCC setting.
2064 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2066 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2067 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2068 persistent error of the form:
2070 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2072 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2073 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2075 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2077 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2078 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2079 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2081 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2083 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2084 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2085 parsing the notmuch results).
2087 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2089 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2092 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2093 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2094 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2099 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2101 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2102 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2103 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2104 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2105 the emacs interface.
2107 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2109 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2110 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2111 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2113 Python-binding fixes
2114 --------------------
2116 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2118 Debian-specific fixes
2119 ---------------------
2121 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2123 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2124 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2125 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2128 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2129 ==========================
2134 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2136 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2137 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2138 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2139 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2141 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2143 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2144 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2145 want notmuch to crash.
2150 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2152 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2153 directory does not exist
2158 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2160 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2161 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2163 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2164 ========================
2166 New command-line features
2167 -------------------------
2169 User-configurable tags for new messages
2171 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2172 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2173 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2174 to specify this value.
2176 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2178 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2179 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2180 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2182 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2184 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2185 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2187 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2189 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2190 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2191 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2192 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2193 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2196 Indication of author names that match a search
2198 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2199 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2200 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2201 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2202 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2203 messages in the thread are listed first.
2205 New: Python bindings
2206 --------------------
2208 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2209 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2210 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2211 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2213 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2214 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2215 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2218 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2219 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2220 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2222 Emacs interface improvements
2223 ----------------------------
2225 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2227 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2228 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2229 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2230 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2231 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2232 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2233 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2234 but without any of the disadvantages).
2236 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2237 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2238 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2241 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2242 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2243 instead running something like:
2245 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2247 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2248 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2249 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2252 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2254 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2255 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2256 tweaked by the user.
2258 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2259 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2260 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2263 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2264 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2265 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2268 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2270 This support currently relies on an external program,
2271 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2272 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2273 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2274 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2275 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2278 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2279 notmuch) is available via:
2281 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2283 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2284 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2285 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2287 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2289 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2290 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2291 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2292 making this automatic in a future release.
2294 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2296 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2297 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2298 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2299 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2300 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2301 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2304 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2306 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2307 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2308 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2310 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2312 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2313 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2314 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2316 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2317 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2318 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2319 other representation.
2321 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2322 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2325 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2327 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2328 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2329 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2331 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2332 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2333 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2335 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2337 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2338 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2339 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2340 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2341 to display the search result.
2343 More flexible handling of header visibility
2345 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2346 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2347 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2348 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2349 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2350 with the 'h' keybinding.
2352 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2353 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2354 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2356 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2358 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2360 Customizable formatting of search results
2362 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2363 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2364 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2366 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2368 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2370 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2375 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2377 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2378 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2379 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2380 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2386 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2388 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2389 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2391 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2393 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2394 accept are now all accepted.
2399 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2401 Better display of output from failed tests
2403 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2404 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2406 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2407 ========================
2409 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2410 detailed release notes this time!
2412 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2413 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2415 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2416 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2417 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2418 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2425 Better guessing of From: header
2427 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2428 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2429 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2430 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2431 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2434 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2436 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2437 guaranteed to match all messages.
2439 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2441 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2442 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2443 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2444 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2445 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2448 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2451 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2452 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2453 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2454 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2459 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2461 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2462 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2463 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2464 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2466 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2468 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2470 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2471 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2472 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2474 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2476 Previously, the user might see:
2478 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2482 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2484 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2485 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2486 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2487 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2489 Emacs client features
2490 ---------------------
2492 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2494 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2495 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2496 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2497 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2498 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2500 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2503 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2504 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2505 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2506 search with the '*' binding.
2508 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2510 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2511 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2514 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2516 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2517 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2518 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2520 Build-system features
2521 ---------------------
2523 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2525 Add support to configure for many standard options
2527 We include actual support for:
2529 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2531 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2533 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2534 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2536 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2537 separate "make install-emacs"
2539 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2541 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2542 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2543 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2545 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2548 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2549 ========================
2551 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2553 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2554 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2556 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2557 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2558 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2559 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2560 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2561 tags from messages in a thread.
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