1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
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 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
46 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
47 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
48 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
50 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
52 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
53 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
54 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
56 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
58 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
59 output separated by null characters rather than newline
60 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
61 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
66 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
68 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
69 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
70 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
71 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
73 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
75 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
76 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
79 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
81 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
82 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
83 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
84 simply displayed in place of the message.
86 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
88 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
89 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
91 Improved text/calendar content handling
93 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
94 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
95 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
96 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
98 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
100 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
101 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
102 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
103 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
105 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
107 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
108 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
109 for HTML email containing images.
111 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
113 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
115 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
117 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
120 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
121 -----------------------------
123 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
124 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
125 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
126 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
127 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
128 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
129 further details and installation.
134 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
136 Internal test framework changes
137 -------------------------------
139 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
141 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
142 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
143 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
144 can result in buggy behavior.
146 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
147 =========================
152 Maildir tag synchronization
154 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
155 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
156 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
157 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
158 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
159 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
162 Command-Line Interface
163 ----------------------
165 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
166 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
167 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
168 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
169 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
175 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
177 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
179 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
180 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
181 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
183 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
185 It is now possible to embed newlines in
186 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
189 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
191 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
192 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
193 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
194 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
195 inside the result or message.
197 Search now uses the JSON format internally
199 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
200 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
202 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
203 user-specified formatting
205 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
206 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
207 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
208 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
209 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
211 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
212 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
214 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
215 ===========================
220 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
221 compilation error for this contrib package.
223 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
224 ===========================
229 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
231 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
232 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
233 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
234 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
236 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
237 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
240 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
241 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
242 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
243 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
246 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
248 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
251 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
252 =========================
254 Command-Line Interface
255 ----------------------
259 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
260 for a reply message and full information about the original message
261 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
262 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
264 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
265 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
266 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
267 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
271 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
272 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
274 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
275 tag in your query, for example:
277 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
279 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
280 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
282 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
283 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
285 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
287 Raw show format changes
289 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
290 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
291 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
292 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
293 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
294 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
295 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
296 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
298 Listing configuration items
300 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
306 Changes to tagging interface
308 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
309 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
310 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
311 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
312 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
313 for more information.
315 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
316 may need to update in custom configurations.
318 Reply improvement using the JSON format
320 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
321 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
322 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
323 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
326 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
327 -----------------------------
329 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
330 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
331 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
332 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
333 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
334 contrib/ from now on.
339 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
340 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
342 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
343 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
345 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
346 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
347 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
349 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
350 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
352 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
353 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
354 returning the new database object or directory object.
361 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
362 compatible with go 1.
364 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
365 =========================
367 Command-Line Interface
368 ----------------------
372 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
373 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
374 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
375 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
377 Mail store folder/file ignore
379 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
380 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
381 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
383 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
384 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
386 Unified help and manual pages
388 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
389 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
392 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
394 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
395 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
403 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
404 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
405 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
406 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
408 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
410 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
411 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
413 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
416 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
417 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
418 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
420 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
422 should be changed to:
424 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
426 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
428 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
429 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
431 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
433 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
434 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
435 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
436 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
437 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
438 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
442 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
443 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
444 of Mailing List Archives.
446 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
448 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
449 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
452 Show view archiving key binding changes
454 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
455 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
456 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
457 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
458 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
461 Support text/calendar MIME type
463 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
466 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
468 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
469 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
470 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
471 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
473 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
475 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
476 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
477 messages blue by default in the search view.
481 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
482 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
489 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
492 Python bindings changes
493 -----------------------
495 Python 3.2 compatibility
497 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
499 Added missing unicode conversions
501 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
502 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
503 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
508 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
510 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
511 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
512 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
513 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
514 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
516 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
517 ===========================
522 Fix error handling in python bindings
524 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
525 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
526 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
527 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
529 Quote MML tags in replies
531 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
532 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
533 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
534 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
535 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
536 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
537 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
538 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
540 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
541 =========================
543 Command-Line Interface
544 ----------------------
548 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
549 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
550 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
551 importing new messages into the database.
553 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
555 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
556 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
557 sometimes. This is now fixed.
562 Automatic tag query optimization
564 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
565 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
566 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
568 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
570 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
571 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
572 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
577 Reduction of memory leaks
579 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
580 and fixed in this release.
587 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
588 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
589 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
592 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
594 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
595 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
596 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
599 Improvements in saved search management
601 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
602 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
603 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
605 Hooks for notmuch-hello
607 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
608 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
609 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
611 New face for crypto parts headers
613 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
614 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
615 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
618 Use space as default thousands separator
620 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
621 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
622 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
624 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
627 New function notmuch-show-advance
629 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
630 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
631 be bound to SPC with:
633 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
635 Various performance improvements
640 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
641 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
644 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
645 ===========================
650 Fix crash in python bindings
652 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
653 for some, but not all users.
655 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
656 ===========================
661 Fix `--help` argument
663 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
664 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
665 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
667 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
668 =========================
670 New build and testing features
671 ------------------------------
673 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
674 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
675 prerequisites is improved.
677 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
679 New command-line features
680 -------------------------
682 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
684 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
685 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
688 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
690 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
691 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
692 favour of using stdout.
694 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
696 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
697 limit the number of results shown.
699 Add `notmuch count --output` option
701 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
702 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
705 New emacs UI features
706 ---------------------
708 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
710 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
711 starting with "tag:".
713 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
715 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
716 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
718 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
720 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
722 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
724 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
725 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
730 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
732 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
734 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
735 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
736 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
737 requires a database rebuild:
739 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
740 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
742 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
744 New collection of add-on tools
745 ------------------------------
747 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
748 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
749 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
752 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
754 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
755 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
756 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
758 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
759 ========================
761 New, general features
762 ---------------------
764 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
766 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
767 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
768 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
769 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
770 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
777 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
778 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
780 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
784 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
785 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
786 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
789 Python bindings changes
790 -----------------------
792 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
794 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
795 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
796 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
797 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
798 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
799 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
801 Ruby bindings changes
802 ---------------------
804 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
805 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
806 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
807 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
812 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
814 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
815 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
817 Reply formatting cleanup
818 ------------------------
820 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
821 MIME parts are being suppressed.
823 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
824 ========================
826 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
828 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
829 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
830 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
831 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
834 Improved Build system portability
836 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
837 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
838 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
840 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
842 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
844 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
846 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
847 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
848 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
850 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
851 ========================
853 Vim interface improvements
854 --------------------------
856 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
858 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
859 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
860 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
861 * fix from list reformatting in search view
862 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
864 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
866 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
867 * fix compose temp file name
869 Python Bindings changes
870 -----------------------
872 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
874 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
875 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
877 Build-System improvements
878 -------------------------
880 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
882 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
885 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
886 ==========================
891 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
893 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
894 people running gcc 4.4.5.
896 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
897 =======================
899 New, general features
900 ---------------------
902 Folder-based searching
904 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
905 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
906 storage). The syntax is as follows:
910 For example, one might use things such as:
916 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
917 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
919 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
920 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
921 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
922 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
924 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
925 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
926 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
929 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
930 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
932 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
936 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
937 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
938 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
940 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
942 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
943 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
945 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
946 notmuch will receive these tags.
948 New command-line features
949 -------------------------
951 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
953 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
954 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
956 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
958 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
959 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
960 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
962 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
964 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
965 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
966 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
967 which parts a signature part applies).
969 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
971 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
972 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
973 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
974 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
975 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
978 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
980 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
981 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
982 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
983 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
984 by translating it internally to the new call.
986 Performance improvements
987 ------------------------
989 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
991 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
992 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
993 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
995 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
996 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
998 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1000 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1001 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1002 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1004 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1005 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1006 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1007 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1009 Faster initial indexing
1011 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1012 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1013 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1015 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1017 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1018 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1019 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1020 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1022 New emacs-interface features
1023 ----------------------------
1025 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1027 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1028 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1029 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1030 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1031 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1032 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1034 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1036 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1037 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1038 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1039 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1041 User-selectable From address
1043 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1044 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1045 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1046 will prompt for the from address to use.
1048 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1049 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1050 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1052 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1053 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1054 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1057 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1059 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1060 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1062 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1064 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1066 ----- Original Message -----
1068 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1069 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1070 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1071 citations work much like conventional citations.
1073 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1075 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1076 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1077 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1078 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1079 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1081 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1082 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1084 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1086 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1087 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1088 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1090 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1092 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1093 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1094 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1095 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1096 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1098 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1100 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1103 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1105 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1107 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1109 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1112 Vim interface improvements
1113 --------------------------
1115 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1117 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1118 * Implementing archive in show view
1119 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1120 * Add delete commands
1123 Bindings improvements
1124 ---------------------
1126 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1128 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1129 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1131 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1133 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1137 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1138 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1139 `list(Messages)` works now
1140 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1142 These allow, for example:
1144 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1146 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1148 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1154 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1156 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1159 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1161 New build-system features
1162 -------------------------
1164 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1166 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1167 the configure script from some other directory:
1174 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1176 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1177 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1178 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1179 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1180 manual invocation of configure.
1182 New test-suite feature
1183 ----------------------
1185 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1187 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1188 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1189 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1190 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1191 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1194 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1196 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1197 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1198 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1199 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1200 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1201 are updated to take advantage of this.
1203 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1205 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1206 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1207 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1208 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1214 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1216 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1217 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1218 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1220 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1222 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1224 to:user@elsewhere.com
1226 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1228 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1230 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1232 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1233 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1234 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1237 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1238 from the Received headers in some cases
1240 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1241 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1243 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1245 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1247 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1249 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1250 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1251 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1253 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1254 -------------------------
1256 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1258 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1259 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1260 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1262 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1264 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1265 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1266 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1269 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1271 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1272 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1273 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1274 fixed to avoid this bug.
1276 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1278 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1279 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1281 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1282 ========================
1284 New, general features
1285 ---------------------
1287 Maildir-flag synchronization
1289 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1290 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1299 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1301 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1302 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1303 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1304 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1306 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1307 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1308 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1309 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1312 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1314 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1315 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1316 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1318 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1319 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1321 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1322 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1324 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1325 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1326 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1328 New library features
1329 --------------------
1331 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1333 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1334 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1335 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1336 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1338 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1339 message with the new function:
1341 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1343 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1344 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1345 over all available filenames for a given message.
1347 New command-line features
1348 -------------------------
1350 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1352 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1353 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1354 access to the mail store itself.
1356 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1357 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1358 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1359 name of a script containing:
1361 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1363 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1364 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1370 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1372 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1374 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1376 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1377 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1378 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1379 now produces nothing).
1381 Emacs interface improvements
1382 ----------------------------
1384 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1386 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1388 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1390 Display current thread subject in a header line
1392 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1394 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1396 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1397 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1398 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1399 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1400 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1401 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1402 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1404 Vim interface improvements
1405 --------------------------
1407 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1409 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1410 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1416 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1418 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1419 ========================
1421 New command-line features
1422 -------------------------
1424 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1426 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1427 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1428 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1430 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1431 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1432 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1433 scripts. For example:
1435 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1436 <operations-on> "$file"
1439 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1441 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1442 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1443 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1444 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1445 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1446 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1448 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1450 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1451 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1452 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1453 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1455 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1457 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1458 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1459 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1460 default rather than Bcc.
1462 New library features
1463 --------------------
1465 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1467 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1468 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1473 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1475 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1476 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1477 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1478 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1479 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1480 notmuch customize interface.
1482 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1484 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1485 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1486 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1487 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1489 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1491 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1492 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1493 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1494 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1496 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1498 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1499 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1500 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1501 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1502 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1503 notmuch customize interface.
1505 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1507 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1508 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1509 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1510 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1511 notmuch customize interface.
1513 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1515 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1516 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1517 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1518 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1521 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1523 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1524 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1525 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1528 New build-system features
1529 -------------------------
1531 Various portability fixes have been applied
1533 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1534 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1535 more portable than ever before.
1537 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1539 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1540 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1541 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1543 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1544 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1545 automatically run ldconfig.
1547 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1548 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1549 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1551 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1552 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1553 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1554 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1556 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1558 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1559 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1560 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1561 used in the resulting Makefile.
1563 New test-suite features
1564 -----------------------
1566 New modularization of test suite
1568 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1569 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1570 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1571 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1572 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1573 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1574 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1575 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1577 New testing of emacs interface
1579 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1580 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1581 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1582 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1583 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1584 database via the FCC setting.
1589 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1591 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1592 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1593 persistent error of the form:
1595 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1597 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1598 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1600 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1602 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1603 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1604 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1606 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1608 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1609 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1610 parsing the notmuch results).
1612 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1614 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1617 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1618 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1619 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1624 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1626 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1627 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1628 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1629 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1630 the emacs interface.
1632 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1634 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1635 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1636 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1638 Python-binding fixes
1639 --------------------
1641 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1643 Debian-specific fixes
1644 ---------------------
1646 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1648 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1649 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1650 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1653 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1654 ==========================
1659 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1661 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1662 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1663 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1664 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1666 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1668 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1669 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1670 want notmuch to crash.
1675 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1677 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1678 directory does not exist
1683 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1685 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1686 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1688 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1689 ========================
1691 New command-line features
1692 -------------------------
1694 User-configurable tags for new messages
1696 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1697 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1698 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1699 to specify this value.
1701 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1703 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1704 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1705 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1707 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1709 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1710 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1712 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1714 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1715 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1716 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1717 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1718 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1721 Indication of author names that match a search
1723 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1724 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1725 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1726 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1727 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1728 messages in the thread are listed first.
1730 New: Python bindings
1731 --------------------
1733 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1734 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1735 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1736 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1738 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1739 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1740 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1743 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1744 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1745 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1747 Emacs interface improvements
1748 ----------------------------
1750 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1752 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1753 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1754 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1755 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1756 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1757 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1758 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1759 but without any of the disadvantages).
1761 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1762 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1763 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1766 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1767 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1768 instead running something like:
1770 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1772 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1773 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1774 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1777 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1779 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1780 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1781 tweaked by the user.
1783 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1784 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1785 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1788 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1789 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1790 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1793 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1795 This support currently relies on an external program,
1796 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1797 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1798 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1799 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1800 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1803 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1804 notmuch) is available via:
1806 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1808 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1809 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1810 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1812 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1814 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1815 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1816 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1817 making this automatic in a future release.
1819 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1821 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1822 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1823 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1824 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1825 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1826 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1829 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1831 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1832 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1833 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1835 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1837 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1838 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1839 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1841 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1842 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1843 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1844 other representation.
1846 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1847 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1850 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1852 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1853 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1854 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1856 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1857 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1858 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1860 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1862 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1863 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1864 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1865 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1866 to display the search result.
1868 More flexible handling of header visibility
1870 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1871 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1872 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1873 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1874 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1875 with the 'h' keybinding.
1877 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1878 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1879 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1881 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1883 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1885 Customizable formatting of search results
1887 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1888 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1889 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1891 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1893 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1895 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1900 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1902 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1903 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1904 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1905 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1911 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1913 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1914 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1916 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1918 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1919 accept are now all accepted.
1924 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1926 Better display of output from failed tests
1928 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1929 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1931 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1932 ========================
1934 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1935 detailed release notes this time!
1937 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1938 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1940 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1941 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1942 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1943 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1950 Better guessing of From: header
1952 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1953 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1954 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1955 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1956 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1959 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1961 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1962 guaranteed to match all messages.
1964 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1966 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1967 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1968 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1969 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1970 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1973 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1976 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1977 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1978 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1979 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1984 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1986 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1987 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1988 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1989 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1991 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1993 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1995 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1996 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1997 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1999 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2001 Previously, the user might see:
2003 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2007 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2009 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2010 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2011 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2012 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2014 Emacs client features
2015 ---------------------
2017 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2019 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2020 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2021 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2022 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2023 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2025 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2028 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2029 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2030 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2031 search with the '*' binding.
2033 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2035 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2036 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2039 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2041 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2042 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2043 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2045 Build-system features
2046 ---------------------
2048 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2050 Add support to configure for many standard options
2052 We include actual support for:
2054 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2056 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2058 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2059 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2061 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2062 separate "make install-emacs"
2064 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2066 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2067 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2068 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2070 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2073 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2074 ========================
2076 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2078 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2079 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2081 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2082 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2083 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2084 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2085 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2086 tags from messages in a thread.
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