1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
22 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
23 notmuch_database_destroy
28 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
29 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
30 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
31 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
32 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
33 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
38 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
39 from the config file. Use something like:
43 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
44 "footer": "</body></html>",
53 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
55 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
56 ===========================
58 This is a bug fix and portability release.
63 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
65 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
67 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
69 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
71 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
77 Use --quick when starting emacs
79 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
81 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
83 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
85 Command-Line Interface
86 ----------------------
88 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
89 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
94 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
96 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
97 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
99 Fix for phrase indexing
101 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
102 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
103 will affect only newly indexed messages.
108 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
110 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
111 unintentionally removed.
113 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
114 =========================
119 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
120 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
121 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
122 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
123 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
124 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
125 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
126 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
127 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
133 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
135 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
136 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
137 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
138 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
139 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
140 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
141 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
142 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
144 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
146 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
147 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
148 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
149 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
152 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
154 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
155 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
156 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
157 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
158 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
159 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
160 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
165 Notmuch database upgrade
167 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
168 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
169 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
170 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
171 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
172 released version of Notmuch before now.
174 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
176 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
177 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
178 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
179 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
181 Message header parsing changes
183 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
184 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
185 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
186 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
187 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
188 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
190 Command-Line Interface
191 ----------------------
193 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
195 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
197 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
199 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
201 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
203 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
204 user does not want it.
206 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
208 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
209 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
210 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
211 support formatted output.
213 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
215 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
216 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
217 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
225 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
226 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
227 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
228 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
229 `~/.emacs` with these.
231 Changed format for saved searches
233 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
234 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
235 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
236 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
239 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
240 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
241 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
242 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
244 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
245 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
246 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
248 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
249 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
250 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
251 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
252 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
254 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
256 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
257 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
258 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
260 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
262 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
263 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
264 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
265 message had been unread).
267 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
268 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
269 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
270 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
272 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
273 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
274 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
276 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
277 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
278 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
279 to tags already present.
283 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
284 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
285 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
286 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
287 these differ from each other.
288 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
290 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
292 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
293 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
294 for these Emacs versions.
296 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
298 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
299 newlines before calling notmuch count.
301 Bug fixes for sender identities
303 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
304 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
305 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
307 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
309 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
310 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
311 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
312 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
314 Reply pushes mark before signature
316 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
317 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
318 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
320 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
322 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
323 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
329 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
330 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
332 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
333 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
334 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
335 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
337 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
338 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
339 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
340 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
341 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
343 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
345 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
346 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
348 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
349 =========================
351 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
352 ---------------------------------------
354 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
355 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
356 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
357 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
358 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
359 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
360 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
364 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
365 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
367 Command-Line Interface
368 ----------------------
370 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
372 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
373 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
374 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
375 print for each message.
377 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
378 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
379 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
380 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
382 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
384 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
385 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
386 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
388 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
390 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
391 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
392 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
393 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
395 `notmuch compact` command
397 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
398 functionality through a more convenient interface than
399 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
400 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
401 move the compacted database into place.
406 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
408 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
409 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
410 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
411 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
412 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
413 and multiple threads.
417 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
419 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
420 search, show and tree mode itself)
422 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
425 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
426 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
428 Customising `notmuch-tree`
430 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
431 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
432 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
433 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
434 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
435 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
436 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
438 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
440 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
441 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
442 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
443 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
444 thread when the search was performed.
446 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
448 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
449 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
450 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
452 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
454 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
455 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
458 Built-in help improvements
460 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
461 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
462 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
464 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
466 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
467 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
468 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
470 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
472 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
473 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
475 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
477 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
478 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
479 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
480 to move some of them to the common keymap.
482 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
484 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
485 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
486 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
487 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
489 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
491 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
492 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
493 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
495 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
497 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
498 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
499 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
501 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
503 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
504 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
505 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
506 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
507 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
509 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
511 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
512 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
513 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
514 the body part of the message.
519 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
520 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
521 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
523 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
524 =========================
526 Command-Line Interface
527 ----------------------
529 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
531 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
532 folder and notmuch index.
534 `notmuch count --batch` option
536 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
537 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
539 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
541 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
542 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
543 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
546 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
548 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
549 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
550 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
551 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
552 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
555 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
557 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
558 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
560 Top level option to specify configuration file
562 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
563 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
565 Bash command-line completion
567 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
568 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
569 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
570 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
571 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
572 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
573 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
574 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
575 bash-completion package.
577 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
582 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
584 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
585 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
586 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
587 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
588 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
589 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
590 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
591 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
593 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
595 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
596 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
597 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
599 Key bindings for next/previous thread
601 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
602 previous thread in the search results.
604 Better handling of errors in search buffers
606 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
607 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
609 Faster search and show
611 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
612 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
613 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
614 threads should show faster.
618 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
619 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
620 in question was now removed from this release.
625 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
626 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
631 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
633 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
634 ===========================
639 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
641 Internal test framework changes
642 -------------------------------
644 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
647 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
648 ===========================
650 Internal test framework changes
651 -------------------------------
653 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
654 build failures in non-interactive environments.
656 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
657 =========================
662 Date range search support
664 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
665 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
666 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
667 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
668 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
671 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
673 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
674 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
675 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
676 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
677 but may be removed in a future release.
679 Command-Line Interface
680 ----------------------
682 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
684 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
685 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
687 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
689 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
690 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
691 officially deprecated.
693 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
695 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
696 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
697 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
699 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
701 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
702 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
705 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
706 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
709 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
711 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
712 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
713 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
715 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
717 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
718 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
719 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
721 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
723 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
724 output separated by null characters rather than newline
725 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
726 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
731 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
733 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
734 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
735 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
736 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
738 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
740 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
741 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
742 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
743 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
744 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
745 the behavior of this, see
746 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
747 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
749 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
750 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
751 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
753 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
755 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
756 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
759 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
761 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
762 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
763 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
764 simply displayed in place of the message.
766 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
768 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
769 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
771 Improved text/calendar content handling
773 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
774 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
775 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
776 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
778 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
780 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
781 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
782 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
783 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
785 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
787 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
788 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
789 for HTML email containing images.
791 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
793 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
795 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
797 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
800 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
802 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
803 the point where it was.
805 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
807 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
808 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
809 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
810 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
811 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
813 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
815 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
816 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
817 thread instead of the message id.
819 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
820 -----------------------------
822 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
823 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
824 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
825 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
826 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
827 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
828 further details and installation.
833 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
835 Internal test framework changes
836 -------------------------------
838 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
840 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
841 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
842 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
843 can result in buggy behavior.
845 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
846 =========================
851 Maildir tag synchronization
853 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
854 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
855 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
856 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
857 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
858 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
861 Command-Line Interface
862 ----------------------
864 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
865 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
866 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
867 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
868 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
874 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
876 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
878 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
879 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
880 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
882 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
884 It is now possible to embed newlines in
885 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
888 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
890 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
891 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
892 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
893 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
894 inside the result or message.
896 Search now uses the JSON format internally
898 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
899 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
901 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
902 user-specified formatting
904 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
905 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
906 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
907 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
908 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
910 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
911 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
913 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
914 ===========================
919 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
920 compilation error for this contrib package.
922 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
923 ===========================
928 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
930 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
931 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
932 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
933 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
935 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
936 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
939 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
940 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
941 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
942 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
945 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
947 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
950 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
951 =========================
953 Command-Line Interface
954 ----------------------
958 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
959 for a reply message and full information about the original message
960 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
961 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
963 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
964 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
965 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
966 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
970 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
971 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
973 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
974 tag in your query, for example:
976 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
978 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
979 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
981 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
982 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
984 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
986 Raw show format changes
988 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
989 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
990 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
991 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
992 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
993 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
994 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
995 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
997 Listing configuration items
999 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1005 Changes to tagging interface
1007 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1008 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1009 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1010 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1011 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1012 for more information.
1014 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1015 may need to update in custom configurations.
1017 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1019 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1020 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1021 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1022 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1025 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1026 -----------------------------
1028 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1029 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1030 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1031 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1032 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1033 contrib/ from now on.
1038 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1039 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1041 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1042 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1044 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1045 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1046 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1048 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1049 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1051 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1052 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1053 returning the new database object or directory object.
1060 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1061 compatible with go 1.
1063 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1064 =========================
1066 Command-Line Interface
1067 ----------------------
1071 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1072 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1073 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1074 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1076 Mail store folder/file ignore
1078 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1079 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1080 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1082 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1083 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1085 Unified help and manual pages
1087 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1088 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1091 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1093 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1094 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1102 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1103 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1104 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1105 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1107 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1109 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1110 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1112 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1115 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1116 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1117 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1119 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1121 should be changed to:
1123 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1125 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1127 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1128 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1130 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1132 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1133 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1134 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1135 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1136 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1137 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1141 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1142 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1143 of Mailing List Archives.
1145 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1147 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1148 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1151 Show view archiving key binding changes
1153 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1154 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1155 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1156 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1157 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1160 Support text/calendar MIME type
1162 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1165 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1167 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1168 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1169 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1170 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1172 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1174 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1175 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1176 messages blue by default in the search view.
1180 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1181 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1188 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1191 Python bindings changes
1192 -----------------------
1194 Python 3.2 compatibility
1196 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1198 Added missing unicode conversions
1200 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1201 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1202 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1207 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1209 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1210 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1211 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1212 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1213 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1215 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1216 ===========================
1221 Fix error handling in python bindings
1223 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1224 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1225 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1226 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1228 Quote MML tags in replies
1230 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1231 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1232 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1233 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1234 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1235 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1236 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1237 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1239 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1240 =========================
1242 Command-Line Interface
1243 ----------------------
1247 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1248 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1249 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1250 importing new messages into the database.
1252 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1254 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1255 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1256 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1261 Automatic tag query optimization
1263 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1264 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1265 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1267 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1269 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1270 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1271 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1276 Reduction of memory leaks
1278 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1279 and fixed in this release.
1286 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1287 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1288 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1291 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1293 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1294 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1295 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1298 Improvements in saved search management
1300 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1301 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1302 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1304 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1306 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1307 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1308 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1310 New face for crypto parts headers
1312 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1313 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1314 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1317 Use space as default thousands separator
1319 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1320 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1321 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1323 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1324 buttonized id: links
1326 New function notmuch-show-advance
1328 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1329 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1330 be bound to SPC with:
1332 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1334 Various performance improvements
1339 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1340 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1343 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1344 ===========================
1349 Fix crash in python bindings
1351 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1352 for some, but not all users.
1354 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1355 ===========================
1360 Fix `--help` argument
1362 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1363 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1364 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1366 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1367 =========================
1369 New build and testing features
1370 ------------------------------
1372 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1373 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1374 prerequisites is improved.
1376 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1378 New command-line features
1379 -------------------------
1381 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1383 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1384 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1387 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1389 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1390 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1391 favour of using stdout.
1393 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1395 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1396 limit the number of results shown.
1398 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1400 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1401 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1404 New emacs UI features
1405 ---------------------
1407 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1409 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1410 starting with "tag:".
1412 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1414 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1415 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1417 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1419 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1421 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1423 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1424 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1429 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1431 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1433 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1434 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1435 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1436 requires a database rebuild:
1438 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1439 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1441 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1443 New collection of add-on tools
1444 ------------------------------
1446 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1447 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1448 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1451 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1453 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1454 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1455 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1457 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1458 ========================
1460 New, general features
1461 ---------------------
1463 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1465 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1466 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1467 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1468 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1469 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1476 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1477 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1479 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1483 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1484 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1485 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1488 Python bindings changes
1489 -----------------------
1491 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1493 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1494 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1495 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1496 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1497 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1498 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1500 Ruby bindings changes
1501 ---------------------
1503 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1504 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1505 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1506 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1511 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1513 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1514 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1516 Reply formatting cleanup
1517 ------------------------
1519 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1520 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1522 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1523 ========================
1525 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1527 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1528 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1529 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1530 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1533 Improved Build system portability
1535 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1536 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1537 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1539 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1541 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1543 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1545 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1546 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1547 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1549 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1550 ========================
1552 Vim interface improvements
1553 --------------------------
1555 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1557 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1558 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1559 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1560 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1561 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1563 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1565 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1566 * fix compose temp file name
1568 Python Bindings changes
1569 -----------------------
1571 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1573 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1574 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1576 Build-System improvements
1577 -------------------------
1579 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1581 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1584 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1585 ==========================
1590 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1592 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1593 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1595 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1596 =======================
1598 New, general features
1599 ---------------------
1601 Folder-based searching
1603 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1604 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1605 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1609 For example, one might use things such as:
1615 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1616 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1618 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1619 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1620 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1621 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1623 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1624 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1625 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1628 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1629 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1631 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1633 Support for PGP/MIME
1635 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1636 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1637 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1639 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1641 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1642 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1644 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1645 notmuch will receive these tags.
1647 New command-line features
1648 -------------------------
1650 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1652 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1653 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1655 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1657 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1658 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1659 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1661 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1663 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1664 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1665 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1666 which parts a signature part applies).
1668 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1670 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1671 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1672 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1673 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1674 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1677 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1679 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1680 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1681 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1682 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1683 by translating it internally to the new call.
1685 Performance improvements
1686 ------------------------
1688 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1690 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1691 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1692 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1694 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1695 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1697 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1699 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1700 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1701 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1703 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1704 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1705 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1706 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1708 Faster initial indexing
1710 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1711 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1712 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1714 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1716 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1717 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1718 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1719 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1721 New emacs-interface features
1722 ----------------------------
1724 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1726 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1727 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1728 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1729 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1730 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1731 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1733 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1735 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1736 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1737 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1738 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1740 User-selectable From address
1742 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1743 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1744 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1745 will prompt for the from address to use.
1747 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1748 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1749 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1751 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1752 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1753 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1756 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1758 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1759 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1761 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1763 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1765 ----- Original Message -----
1767 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1768 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1769 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1770 citations work much like conventional citations.
1772 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1774 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1775 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1776 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1777 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1778 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1780 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1781 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1783 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1785 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1786 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1787 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1789 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1791 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1792 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1793 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1794 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1795 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1797 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1799 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1802 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1804 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1806 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1808 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1811 Vim interface improvements
1812 --------------------------
1814 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1816 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1817 * Implementing archive in show view
1818 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1819 * Add delete commands
1822 Bindings improvements
1823 ---------------------
1825 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1827 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1828 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1830 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1832 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1836 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1837 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1838 `list(Messages)` works now
1839 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1841 These allow, for example:
1843 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1845 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1847 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1853 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1855 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1858 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1860 New build-system features
1861 -------------------------
1863 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1865 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1866 the configure script from some other directory:
1873 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1875 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1876 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1877 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1878 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1879 manual invocation of configure.
1881 New test-suite feature
1882 ----------------------
1884 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1886 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1887 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1888 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1889 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1890 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1893 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1895 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1896 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1897 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1898 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1899 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1900 are updated to take advantage of this.
1902 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1904 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1905 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1906 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1907 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1913 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1915 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1916 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1917 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1919 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1921 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1923 to:user@elsewhere.com
1925 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1927 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1929 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1931 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1932 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1933 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1936 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1937 from the Received headers in some cases
1939 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1940 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1942 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1944 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1946 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1948 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1949 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1950 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1952 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1953 -------------------------
1955 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1957 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1958 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1959 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1961 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1963 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1964 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1965 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1968 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1970 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1971 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1972 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1973 fixed to avoid this bug.
1975 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1977 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1978 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1980 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1981 ========================
1983 New, general features
1984 ---------------------
1986 Maildir-flag synchronization
1988 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1989 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1998 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2000 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2001 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2002 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2003 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2005 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2006 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2007 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2008 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2011 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2013 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2014 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2015 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2017 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2018 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2020 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2021 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2023 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2024 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2025 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2027 New library features
2028 --------------------
2030 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2032 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2033 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2034 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2035 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2037 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2038 message with the new function:
2040 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2042 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2043 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2044 over all available filenames for a given message.
2046 New command-line features
2047 -------------------------
2049 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2051 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2052 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2053 access to the mail store itself.
2055 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2056 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2057 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2058 name of a script containing:
2060 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2062 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2063 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2069 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2071 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2073 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2075 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2076 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2077 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2078 now produces nothing).
2080 Emacs interface improvements
2081 ----------------------------
2083 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2085 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2087 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2089 Display current thread subject in a header line
2091 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2093 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2095 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2096 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2097 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2098 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2099 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2100 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2101 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2103 Vim interface improvements
2104 --------------------------
2106 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2108 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2109 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2115 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2117 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2118 ========================
2120 New command-line features
2121 -------------------------
2123 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2125 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2126 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2127 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2129 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2130 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2131 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2132 scripts. For example:
2134 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2135 <operations-on> "$file"
2138 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2140 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2141 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2142 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2143 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2144 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2145 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2147 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2149 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2150 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2151 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2152 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2154 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2156 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2157 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2158 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2159 default rather than Bcc.
2161 New library features
2162 --------------------
2164 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2166 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2167 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2172 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2174 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2175 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2176 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2177 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2178 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2179 notmuch customize interface.
2181 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2183 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2184 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2185 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2186 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2188 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2190 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2191 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2192 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2193 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2195 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2197 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2198 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2199 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2200 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2201 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2202 notmuch customize interface.
2204 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2206 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2207 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2208 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2209 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2210 notmuch customize interface.
2212 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2214 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2215 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2216 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2217 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2220 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2222 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2223 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2224 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2227 New build-system features
2228 -------------------------
2230 Various portability fixes have been applied
2232 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2233 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2234 more portable than ever before.
2236 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2238 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2239 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2240 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2242 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2243 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2244 automatically run ldconfig.
2246 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2247 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2248 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2250 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2251 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2252 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2253 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2255 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2257 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2258 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2259 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2260 used in the resulting Makefile.
2262 New test-suite features
2263 -----------------------
2265 New modularization of test suite
2267 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2268 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2269 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2270 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2271 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2272 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2273 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2274 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2276 New testing of emacs interface
2278 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2279 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2280 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2281 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2282 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2283 database via the FCC setting.
2288 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2290 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2291 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2292 persistent error of the form:
2294 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2296 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2297 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2299 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2301 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2302 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2303 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2305 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2307 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2308 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2309 parsing the notmuch results).
2311 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2313 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2316 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2317 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2318 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2323 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2325 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2326 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2327 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2328 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2329 the emacs interface.
2331 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2333 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2334 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2335 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2337 Python-binding fixes
2338 --------------------
2340 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2342 Debian-specific fixes
2343 ---------------------
2345 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2347 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2348 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2349 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2352 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2353 ==========================
2358 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2360 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2361 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2362 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2363 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2365 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2367 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2368 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2369 want notmuch to crash.
2374 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2376 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2377 directory does not exist
2382 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2384 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2385 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2387 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2388 ========================
2390 New command-line features
2391 -------------------------
2393 User-configurable tags for new messages
2395 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2396 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2397 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2398 to specify this value.
2400 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2402 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2403 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2404 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2406 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2408 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2409 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2411 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2413 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2414 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2415 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2416 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2417 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2420 Indication of author names that match a search
2422 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2423 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2424 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2425 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2426 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2427 messages in the thread are listed first.
2429 New: Python bindings
2430 --------------------
2432 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2433 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2434 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2435 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2437 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2438 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2439 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2442 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2443 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2444 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2446 Emacs interface improvements
2447 ----------------------------
2449 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2451 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2452 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2453 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2454 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2455 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2456 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2457 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2458 but without any of the disadvantages).
2460 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2461 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2462 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2465 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2466 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2467 instead running something like:
2469 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2471 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2472 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2473 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2476 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2478 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2479 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2480 tweaked by the user.
2482 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2483 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2484 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2487 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2488 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2489 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2492 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2494 This support currently relies on an external program,
2495 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2496 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2497 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2498 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2499 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2502 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2503 notmuch) is available via:
2505 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2507 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2508 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2509 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2511 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2513 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2514 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2515 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2516 making this automatic in a future release.
2518 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2520 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2521 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2522 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2523 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2524 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2525 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2528 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2530 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2531 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2532 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2534 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2536 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2537 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2538 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2540 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2541 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2542 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2543 other representation.
2545 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2546 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2549 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2551 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2552 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2553 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2555 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2556 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2557 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2559 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2561 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2562 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2563 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2564 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2565 to display the search result.
2567 More flexible handling of header visibility
2569 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2570 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2571 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2572 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2573 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2574 with the 'h' keybinding.
2576 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2577 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2578 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2580 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2582 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2584 Customizable formatting of search results
2586 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2587 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2588 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2590 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2592 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2594 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2599 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2601 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2602 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2603 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2604 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2610 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2612 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2613 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2615 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2617 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2618 accept are now all accepted.
2623 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2625 Better display of output from failed tests
2627 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2628 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2630 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2631 ========================
2633 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2634 detailed release notes this time!
2636 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2637 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2639 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2640 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2641 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2642 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2649 Better guessing of From: header
2651 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2652 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2653 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2654 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2655 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2658 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2660 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2661 guaranteed to match all messages.
2663 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2665 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2666 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2667 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2668 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2669 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2672 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2675 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2676 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2677 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2678 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2683 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2685 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2686 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2687 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2688 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2690 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2692 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2694 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2695 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2696 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2698 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2700 Previously, the user might see:
2702 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2706 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2708 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2709 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2710 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2711 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2713 Emacs client features
2714 ---------------------
2716 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2718 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2719 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2720 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2721 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2722 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2724 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2727 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2728 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2729 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2730 search with the '*' binding.
2732 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2734 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2735 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2738 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2740 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2741 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2742 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2744 Build-system features
2745 ---------------------
2747 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2749 Add support to configure for many standard options
2751 We include actual support for:
2753 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2755 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2757 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2758 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2760 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2761 separate "make install-emacs"
2763 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2765 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2766 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2767 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2769 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2772 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2773 ========================
2775 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2777 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2778 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2780 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2781 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2782 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2783 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2784 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2785 tags from messages in a thread.
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