1 Notmuch 0.15~rc1 (2013-01-16)
2 =============================
7 Date range search support
9 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
10 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
11 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
12 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
13 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
16 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
18 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
19 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
20 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
21 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
22 but may be removed in a future release.
24 Command-Line Interface
25 ----------------------
27 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
29 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
30 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
32 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
34 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
35 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
36 officially deprecated.
38 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
40 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
41 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
42 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
44 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
46 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
47 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
50 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
51 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
54 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
56 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
57 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
58 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
60 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
62 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
63 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
64 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
66 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
68 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
69 output separated by null characters rather than newline
70 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
71 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
76 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
78 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
79 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
80 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
81 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
83 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
85 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
86 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
87 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
88 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
89 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
90 the behavior of this, see
91 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
92 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
94 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
96 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
97 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
100 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
102 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
103 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
104 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
105 simply displayed in place of the message.
107 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
109 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
110 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
112 Improved text/calendar content handling
114 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
115 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
116 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
117 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
119 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
121 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
122 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
123 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
124 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
126 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
128 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
129 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
130 for HTML email containing images.
132 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
134 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
136 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
138 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
141 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
143 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
144 the point where it was.
146 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
148 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
149 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
150 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
151 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
152 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
154 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
156 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
157 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
158 thread instead of the message id.
160 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
161 -----------------------------
163 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
164 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
165 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
166 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
167 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
168 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
169 further details and installation.
174 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
176 Internal test framework changes
177 -------------------------------
179 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
181 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
182 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
183 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
184 can result in buggy behavior.
186 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
187 =========================
192 Maildir tag synchronization
194 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
195 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
196 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
197 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
198 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
199 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
202 Command-Line Interface
203 ----------------------
205 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
206 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
207 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
208 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
209 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
215 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
217 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
219 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
220 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
221 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
223 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
225 It is now possible to embed newlines in
226 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
229 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
231 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
232 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
233 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
234 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
235 inside the result or message.
237 Search now uses the JSON format internally
239 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
240 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
242 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
243 user-specified formatting
245 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
246 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
247 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
248 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
249 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
251 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
252 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
254 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
255 ===========================
260 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
261 compilation error for this contrib package.
263 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
264 ===========================
269 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
271 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
272 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
273 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
274 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
276 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
277 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
280 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
281 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
282 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
283 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
286 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
288 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
291 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
292 =========================
294 Command-Line Interface
295 ----------------------
299 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
300 for a reply message and full information about the original message
301 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
302 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
304 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
305 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
306 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
307 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
311 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
312 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
314 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
315 tag in your query, for example:
317 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
319 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
320 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
322 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
323 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
325 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
327 Raw show format changes
329 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
330 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
331 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
332 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
333 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
334 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
335 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
336 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
338 Listing configuration items
340 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
346 Changes to tagging interface
348 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
349 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
350 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
351 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
352 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
353 for more information.
355 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
356 may need to update in custom configurations.
358 Reply improvement using the JSON format
360 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
361 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
362 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
363 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
366 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
367 -----------------------------
369 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
370 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
371 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
372 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
373 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
374 contrib/ from now on.
379 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
380 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
382 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
383 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
385 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
386 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
387 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
389 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
390 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
392 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
393 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
394 returning the new database object or directory object.
401 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
402 compatible with go 1.
404 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
405 =========================
407 Command-Line Interface
408 ----------------------
412 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
413 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
414 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
415 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
417 Mail store folder/file ignore
419 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
420 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
421 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
423 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
424 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
426 Unified help and manual pages
428 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
429 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
432 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
434 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
435 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
443 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
444 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
445 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
446 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
448 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
450 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
451 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
453 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
456 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
457 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
458 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
460 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
462 should be changed to:
464 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
466 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
468 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
469 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
471 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
473 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
474 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
475 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
476 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
477 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
478 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
482 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
483 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
484 of Mailing List Archives.
486 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
488 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
489 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
492 Show view archiving key binding changes
494 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
495 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
496 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
497 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
498 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
501 Support text/calendar MIME type
503 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
506 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
508 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
509 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
510 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
511 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
513 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
515 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
516 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
517 messages blue by default in the search view.
521 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
522 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
529 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
532 Python bindings changes
533 -----------------------
535 Python 3.2 compatibility
537 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
539 Added missing unicode conversions
541 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
542 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
543 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
548 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
550 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
551 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
552 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
553 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
554 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
556 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
557 ===========================
562 Fix error handling in python bindings
564 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
565 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
566 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
567 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
569 Quote MML tags in replies
571 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
572 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
573 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
574 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
575 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
576 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
577 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
578 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
580 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
581 =========================
583 Command-Line Interface
584 ----------------------
588 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
589 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
590 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
591 importing new messages into the database.
593 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
595 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
596 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
597 sometimes. This is now fixed.
602 Automatic tag query optimization
604 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
605 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
606 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
608 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
610 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
611 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
612 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
617 Reduction of memory leaks
619 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
620 and fixed in this release.
627 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
628 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
629 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
632 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
634 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
635 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
636 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
639 Improvements in saved search management
641 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
642 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
643 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
645 Hooks for notmuch-hello
647 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
648 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
649 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
651 New face for crypto parts headers
653 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
654 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
655 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
658 Use space as default thousands separator
660 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
661 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
662 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
664 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
667 New function notmuch-show-advance
669 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
670 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
671 be bound to SPC with:
673 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
675 Various performance improvements
680 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
681 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
684 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
685 ===========================
690 Fix crash in python bindings
692 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
693 for some, but not all users.
695 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
696 ===========================
701 Fix `--help` argument
703 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
704 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
705 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
707 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
708 =========================
710 New build and testing features
711 ------------------------------
713 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
714 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
715 prerequisites is improved.
717 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
719 New command-line features
720 -------------------------
722 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
724 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
725 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
728 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
730 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
731 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
732 favour of using stdout.
734 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
736 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
737 limit the number of results shown.
739 Add `notmuch count --output` option
741 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
742 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
745 New emacs UI features
746 ---------------------
748 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
750 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
751 starting with "tag:".
753 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
755 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
756 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
758 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
760 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
762 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
764 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
765 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
770 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
772 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
774 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
775 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
776 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
777 requires a database rebuild:
779 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
780 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
782 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
784 New collection of add-on tools
785 ------------------------------
787 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
788 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
789 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
792 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
794 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
795 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
796 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
798 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
799 ========================
801 New, general features
802 ---------------------
804 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
806 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
807 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
808 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
809 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
810 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
817 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
818 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
820 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
824 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
825 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
826 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
829 Python bindings changes
830 -----------------------
832 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
834 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
835 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
836 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
837 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
838 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
839 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
841 Ruby bindings changes
842 ---------------------
844 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
845 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
846 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
847 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
852 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
854 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
855 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
857 Reply formatting cleanup
858 ------------------------
860 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
861 MIME parts are being suppressed.
863 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
864 ========================
866 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
868 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
869 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
870 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
871 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
874 Improved Build system portability
876 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
877 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
878 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
880 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
882 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
884 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
886 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
887 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
888 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
890 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
891 ========================
893 Vim interface improvements
894 --------------------------
896 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
898 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
899 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
900 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
901 * fix from list reformatting in search view
902 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
904 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
906 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
907 * fix compose temp file name
909 Python Bindings changes
910 -----------------------
912 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
914 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
915 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
917 Build-System improvements
918 -------------------------
920 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
922 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
925 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
926 ==========================
931 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
933 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
934 people running gcc 4.4.5.
936 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
937 =======================
939 New, general features
940 ---------------------
942 Folder-based searching
944 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
945 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
946 storage). The syntax is as follows:
950 For example, one might use things such as:
956 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
957 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
959 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
960 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
961 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
962 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
964 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
965 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
966 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
969 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
970 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
972 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
976 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
977 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
978 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
980 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
982 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
983 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
985 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
986 notmuch will receive these tags.
988 New command-line features
989 -------------------------
991 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
993 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
994 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
996 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
998 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
999 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1000 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1002 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1004 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1005 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1006 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1007 which parts a signature part applies).
1009 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1011 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1012 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1013 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1014 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1015 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1018 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1020 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1021 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1022 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1023 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1024 by translating it internally to the new call.
1026 Performance improvements
1027 ------------------------
1029 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1031 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1032 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1033 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1035 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1036 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1038 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1040 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1041 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1042 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1044 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1045 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1046 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1047 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1049 Faster initial indexing
1051 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1052 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1053 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1055 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1057 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1058 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1059 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1060 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1062 New emacs-interface features
1063 ----------------------------
1065 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1067 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1068 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1069 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1070 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1071 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1072 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1074 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1076 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1077 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1078 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1079 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1081 User-selectable From address
1083 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1084 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1085 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1086 will prompt for the from address to use.
1088 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1089 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1090 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1092 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1093 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1094 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1097 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1099 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1100 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1102 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1104 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1106 ----- Original Message -----
1108 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1109 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1110 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1111 citations work much like conventional citations.
1113 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1115 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1116 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1117 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1118 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1119 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1121 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1122 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1124 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1126 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1127 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1128 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1130 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1132 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1133 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1134 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1135 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1136 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1138 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1140 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1143 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1145 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1147 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1149 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1152 Vim interface improvements
1153 --------------------------
1155 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1157 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1158 * Implementing archive in show view
1159 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1160 * Add delete commands
1163 Bindings improvements
1164 ---------------------
1166 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1168 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1169 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1171 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1173 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1177 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1178 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1179 `list(Messages)` works now
1180 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1182 These allow, for example:
1184 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1186 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1188 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1194 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1196 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1199 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1201 New build-system features
1202 -------------------------
1204 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1206 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1207 the configure script from some other directory:
1214 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1216 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1217 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1218 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1219 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1220 manual invocation of configure.
1222 New test-suite feature
1223 ----------------------
1225 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1227 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1228 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1229 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1230 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1231 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1234 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1236 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1237 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1238 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1239 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1240 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1241 are updated to take advantage of this.
1243 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1245 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1246 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1247 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1248 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1254 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1256 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1257 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1258 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1260 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1262 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1264 to:user@elsewhere.com
1266 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1268 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1270 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1272 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1273 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1274 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1277 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1278 from the Received headers in some cases
1280 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1281 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1283 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1285 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1287 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1289 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1290 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1291 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1293 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1294 -------------------------
1296 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1298 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1299 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1300 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1302 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1304 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1305 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1306 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1309 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1311 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1312 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1313 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1314 fixed to avoid this bug.
1316 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1318 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1319 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1321 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1322 ========================
1324 New, general features
1325 ---------------------
1327 Maildir-flag synchronization
1329 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1330 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1339 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1341 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1342 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1343 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1344 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1346 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1347 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1348 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1349 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1352 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1354 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1355 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1356 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1358 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1359 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1361 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1362 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1364 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1365 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1366 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1368 New library features
1369 --------------------
1371 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1373 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1374 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1375 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1376 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1378 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1379 message with the new function:
1381 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1383 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1384 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1385 over all available filenames for a given message.
1387 New command-line features
1388 -------------------------
1390 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1392 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1393 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1394 access to the mail store itself.
1396 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1397 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1398 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1399 name of a script containing:
1401 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1403 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1404 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1410 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1412 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1414 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1416 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1417 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1418 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1419 now produces nothing).
1421 Emacs interface improvements
1422 ----------------------------
1424 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1426 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1428 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1430 Display current thread subject in a header line
1432 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1434 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1436 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1437 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1438 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1439 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1440 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1441 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1442 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1444 Vim interface improvements
1445 --------------------------
1447 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1449 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1450 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1456 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1458 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1459 ========================
1461 New command-line features
1462 -------------------------
1464 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1466 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1467 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1468 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1470 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1471 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1472 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1473 scripts. For example:
1475 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1476 <operations-on> "$file"
1479 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1481 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1482 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1483 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1484 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1485 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1486 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1488 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1490 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1491 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1492 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1493 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1495 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1497 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1498 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1499 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1500 default rather than Bcc.
1502 New library features
1503 --------------------
1505 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1507 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1508 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1513 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1515 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1516 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1517 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1518 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1519 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1520 notmuch customize interface.
1522 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1524 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1525 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1526 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1527 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1529 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1531 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1532 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1533 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1534 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1536 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1538 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1539 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1540 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1541 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1542 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1543 notmuch customize interface.
1545 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1547 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1548 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1549 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1550 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1551 notmuch customize interface.
1553 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1555 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1556 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1557 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1558 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1561 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1563 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1564 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1565 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1568 New build-system features
1569 -------------------------
1571 Various portability fixes have been applied
1573 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1574 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1575 more portable than ever before.
1577 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1579 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1580 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1581 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1583 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1584 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1585 automatically run ldconfig.
1587 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1588 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1589 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1591 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1592 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1593 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1594 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1596 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1598 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1599 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1600 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1601 used in the resulting Makefile.
1603 New test-suite features
1604 -----------------------
1606 New modularization of test suite
1608 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1609 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1610 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1611 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1612 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1613 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1614 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1615 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1617 New testing of emacs interface
1619 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1620 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1621 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1622 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1623 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1624 database via the FCC setting.
1629 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1631 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1632 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1633 persistent error of the form:
1635 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1637 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1638 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1640 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1642 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1643 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1644 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1646 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1648 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1649 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1650 parsing the notmuch results).
1652 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1654 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1657 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1658 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1659 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1664 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1666 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1667 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1668 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1669 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1670 the emacs interface.
1672 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1674 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1675 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1676 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1678 Python-binding fixes
1679 --------------------
1681 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1683 Debian-specific fixes
1684 ---------------------
1686 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1688 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1689 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1690 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1693 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1694 ==========================
1699 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1701 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1702 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1703 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1704 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1706 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1708 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1709 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1710 want notmuch to crash.
1715 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1717 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1718 directory does not exist
1723 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1725 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1726 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1728 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1729 ========================
1731 New command-line features
1732 -------------------------
1734 User-configurable tags for new messages
1736 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1737 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1738 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1739 to specify this value.
1741 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1743 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1744 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1745 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1747 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1749 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1750 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1752 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1754 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1755 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1756 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1757 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1758 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1761 Indication of author names that match a search
1763 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1764 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1765 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1766 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1767 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1768 messages in the thread are listed first.
1770 New: Python bindings
1771 --------------------
1773 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1774 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1775 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1776 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1778 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1779 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1780 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1783 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1784 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1785 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1787 Emacs interface improvements
1788 ----------------------------
1790 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1792 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1793 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1794 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1795 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1796 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1797 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1798 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1799 but without any of the disadvantages).
1801 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1802 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1803 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1806 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1807 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1808 instead running something like:
1810 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1812 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1813 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1814 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1817 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1819 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1820 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1821 tweaked by the user.
1823 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1824 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1825 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1828 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1829 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1830 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1833 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1835 This support currently relies on an external program,
1836 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1837 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1838 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1839 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1840 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1843 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1844 notmuch) is available via:
1846 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1848 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1849 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1850 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1852 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1854 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1855 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1856 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1857 making this automatic in a future release.
1859 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1861 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1862 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1863 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1864 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1865 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1866 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1869 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1871 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1872 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1873 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1875 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1877 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1878 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1879 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1881 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1882 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1883 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1884 other representation.
1886 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1887 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1890 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1892 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1893 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1894 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1896 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1897 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1898 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1900 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1902 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1903 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1904 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1905 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1906 to display the search result.
1908 More flexible handling of header visibility
1910 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1911 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1912 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1913 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1914 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1915 with the 'h' keybinding.
1917 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1918 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1919 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1921 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1923 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1925 Customizable formatting of search results
1927 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1928 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1929 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1931 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1933 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1935 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1940 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1942 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1943 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1944 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1945 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1951 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1953 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1954 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1956 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1958 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1959 accept are now all accepted.
1964 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1966 Better display of output from failed tests
1968 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1969 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1971 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1972 ========================
1974 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1975 detailed release notes this time!
1977 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1978 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1980 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1981 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1982 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1983 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1990 Better guessing of From: header
1992 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1993 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1994 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1995 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1996 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1999 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2001 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2002 guaranteed to match all messages.
2004 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2006 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2007 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2008 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2009 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2010 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2013 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2016 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2017 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2018 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2019 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2024 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2026 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2027 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2028 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2029 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2031 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2033 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2035 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2036 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2037 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2039 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2041 Previously, the user might see:
2043 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2047 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2049 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2050 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2051 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2052 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2054 Emacs client features
2055 ---------------------
2057 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2059 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2060 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2061 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2062 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2063 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2065 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2068 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2069 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2070 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2071 search with the '*' binding.
2073 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2075 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2076 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2079 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2081 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2082 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2083 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2085 Build-system features
2086 ---------------------
2088 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2090 Add support to configure for many standard options
2092 We include actual support for:
2094 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2096 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2098 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2099 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2101 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2102 separate "make install-emacs"
2104 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2106 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2107 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2108 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2110 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2113 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2114 ========================
2116 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2118 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2119 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2121 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2122 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2123 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2124 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2125 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2126 tags from messages in a thread.
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