1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
8 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
9 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
10 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
11 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
12 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
13 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
14 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
15 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
21 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
23 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
24 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
25 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
26 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
27 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
28 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
31 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
33 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
34 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
35 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
36 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
39 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
41 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
42 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
43 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
44 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
45 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
46 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
47 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
52 Notmuch database upgrade
54 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
55 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
56 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
57 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
58 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
59 released version of Notmuch before now.
61 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
63 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
64 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
65 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
66 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
68 Message header parsing changes
70 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
71 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
72 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
73 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
74 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
75 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
77 Command-Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
82 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
84 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
86 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
88 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
90 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
91 user does not want it.
93 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
95 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
96 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
97 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
98 support formatted output.
105 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
106 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
107 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
108 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
109 `~/.emacs` with these.
111 Changed format for saved searches
113 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
114 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
115 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
116 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
119 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
120 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
121 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
122 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
124 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
125 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
126 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
128 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
129 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
130 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
131 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
132 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
134 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
136 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
137 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
138 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
140 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
142 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
143 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
144 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
145 message had been unread).
147 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
148 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
149 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
150 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
152 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
153 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
154 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
156 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
157 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
158 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
159 to tags already present.
163 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
164 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
165 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
166 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
167 these differ from each other.
168 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
170 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
172 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
173 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
174 for these Emacs versions.
176 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
178 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
179 newlines before calling notmuch count.
181 Bug fixes for sender identities
183 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
184 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
185 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
187 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
189 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
190 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
191 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
192 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
194 Reply pushes mark before signature
196 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
197 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
198 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
200 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
202 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
203 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
209 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
210 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
212 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
213 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
214 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
215 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
217 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
218 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
219 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
220 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
221 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
223 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
225 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
226 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
228 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
229 =========================
231 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
232 ---------------------------------------
234 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
235 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
236 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
237 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
238 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
239 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
240 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
244 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
245 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
247 Command-Line Interface
248 ----------------------
250 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
252 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
253 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
254 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
255 print for each message.
257 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
258 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
259 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
260 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
262 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
264 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
265 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
266 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
268 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
270 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
271 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
272 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
273 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
275 `notmuch compact` command
277 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
278 functionality through a more convenient interface than
279 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
280 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
281 move the compacted database into place.
286 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
288 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
289 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
290 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
291 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
292 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
293 and multiple threads.
297 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
299 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
300 search, show and tree mode itself)
302 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
305 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
306 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
308 Customising `notmuch-tree`
310 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
311 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
312 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
313 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
314 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
315 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
316 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
318 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
320 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
321 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
322 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
323 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
324 thread when the search was performed.
326 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
328 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
329 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
330 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
332 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
334 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
335 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
338 Built-in help improvements
340 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
341 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
342 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
344 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
346 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
347 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
348 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
350 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
352 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
353 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
355 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
357 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
358 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
359 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
360 to move some of them to the common keymap.
362 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
364 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
365 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
366 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
367 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
369 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
371 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
372 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
373 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
375 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
377 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
378 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
379 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
381 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
383 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
384 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
385 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
386 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
387 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
389 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
391 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
392 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
393 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
394 the body part of the message.
399 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
400 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
401 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
403 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
404 =========================
406 Command-Line Interface
407 ----------------------
409 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
411 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
412 folder and notmuch index.
414 `notmuch count --batch` option
416 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
417 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
419 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
421 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
422 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
423 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
426 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
428 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
429 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
430 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
431 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
432 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
435 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
437 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
438 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
440 Top level option to specify configuration file
442 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
443 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
445 Bash command-line completion
447 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
448 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
449 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
450 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
451 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
452 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
453 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
454 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
455 bash-completion package.
457 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
462 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
464 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
465 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
466 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
467 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
468 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
469 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
470 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
471 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
473 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
475 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
476 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
477 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
479 Key bindings for next/previous thread
481 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
482 previous thread in the search results.
484 Better handling of errors in search buffers
486 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
487 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
489 Faster search and show
491 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
492 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
493 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
494 threads should show faster.
498 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
499 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
500 in question was now removed from this release.
505 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
506 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
511 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
513 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
514 ===========================
519 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
521 Internal test framework changes
522 -------------------------------
524 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
527 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
528 ===========================
530 Internal test framework changes
531 -------------------------------
533 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
534 build failures in non-interactive environments.
536 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
537 =========================
542 Date range search support
544 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
545 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
546 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
547 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
548 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
551 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
553 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
554 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
555 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
556 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
557 but may be removed in a future release.
559 Command-Line Interface
560 ----------------------
562 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
564 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
565 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
567 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
569 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
570 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
571 officially deprecated.
573 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
575 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
576 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
577 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
579 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
581 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
582 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
585 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
586 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
589 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
591 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
592 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
593 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
595 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
597 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
598 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
599 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
601 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
603 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
604 output separated by null characters rather than newline
605 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
606 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
611 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
613 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
614 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
615 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
616 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
618 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
620 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
621 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
622 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
623 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
624 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
625 the behavior of this, see
626 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
627 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
629 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
630 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
631 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
633 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
635 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
636 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
639 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
641 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
642 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
643 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
644 simply displayed in place of the message.
646 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
648 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
649 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
651 Improved text/calendar content handling
653 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
654 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
655 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
656 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
658 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
660 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
661 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
662 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
663 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
665 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
667 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
668 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
669 for HTML email containing images.
671 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
673 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
675 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
677 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
680 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
682 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
683 the point where it was.
685 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
687 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
688 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
689 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
690 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
691 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
693 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
695 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
696 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
697 thread instead of the message id.
699 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
700 -----------------------------
702 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
703 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
704 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
705 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
706 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
707 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
708 further details and installation.
713 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
715 Internal test framework changes
716 -------------------------------
718 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
720 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
721 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
722 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
723 can result in buggy behavior.
725 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
726 =========================
731 Maildir tag synchronization
733 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
734 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
735 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
736 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
737 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
738 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
741 Command-Line Interface
742 ----------------------
744 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
745 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
746 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
747 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
748 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
754 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
756 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
758 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
759 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
760 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
762 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
764 It is now possible to embed newlines in
765 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
768 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
770 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
771 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
772 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
773 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
774 inside the result or message.
776 Search now uses the JSON format internally
778 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
779 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
781 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
782 user-specified formatting
784 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
785 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
786 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
787 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
788 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
790 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
791 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
793 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
794 ===========================
799 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
800 compilation error for this contrib package.
802 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
803 ===========================
808 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
810 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
811 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
812 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
813 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
815 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
816 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
819 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
820 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
821 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
822 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
825 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
827 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
830 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
831 =========================
833 Command-Line Interface
834 ----------------------
838 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
839 for a reply message and full information about the original message
840 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
841 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
843 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
844 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
845 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
846 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
850 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
851 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
853 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
854 tag in your query, for example:
856 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
858 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
859 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
861 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
862 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
864 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
866 Raw show format changes
868 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
869 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
870 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
871 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
872 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
873 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
874 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
875 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
877 Listing configuration items
879 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
885 Changes to tagging interface
887 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
888 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
889 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
890 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
891 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
892 for more information.
894 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
895 may need to update in custom configurations.
897 Reply improvement using the JSON format
899 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
900 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
901 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
902 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
905 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
906 -----------------------------
908 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
909 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
910 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
911 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
912 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
913 contrib/ from now on.
918 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
919 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
921 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
922 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
924 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
925 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
926 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
928 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
929 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
931 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
932 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
933 returning the new database object or directory object.
940 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
941 compatible with go 1.
943 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
944 =========================
946 Command-Line Interface
947 ----------------------
951 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
952 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
953 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
954 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
956 Mail store folder/file ignore
958 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
959 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
960 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
962 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
963 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
965 Unified help and manual pages
967 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
968 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
971 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
973 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
974 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
982 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
983 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
984 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
985 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
987 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
989 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
990 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
992 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
995 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
996 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
997 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
999 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1001 should be changed to:
1003 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1005 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1007 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1008 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1010 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1012 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1013 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1014 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1015 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1016 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1017 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1021 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1022 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1023 of Mailing List Archives.
1025 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1027 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1028 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1031 Show view archiving key binding changes
1033 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1034 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1035 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1036 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1037 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1040 Support text/calendar MIME type
1042 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1045 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1047 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1048 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1049 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1050 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1052 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1054 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1055 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1056 messages blue by default in the search view.
1060 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1061 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1068 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1071 Python bindings changes
1072 -----------------------
1074 Python 3.2 compatibility
1076 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1078 Added missing unicode conversions
1080 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1081 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1082 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1087 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1089 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1090 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1091 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1092 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1093 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1095 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1096 ===========================
1101 Fix error handling in python bindings
1103 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1104 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1105 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1106 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1108 Quote MML tags in replies
1110 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1111 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1112 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1113 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1114 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1115 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1116 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1117 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1119 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1120 =========================
1122 Command-Line Interface
1123 ----------------------
1127 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1128 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1129 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1130 importing new messages into the database.
1132 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1134 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1135 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1136 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1141 Automatic tag query optimization
1143 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1144 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1145 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1147 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1149 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1150 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1151 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1156 Reduction of memory leaks
1158 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1159 and fixed in this release.
1166 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1167 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1168 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1171 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1173 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1174 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1175 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1178 Improvements in saved search management
1180 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1181 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1182 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1184 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1186 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1187 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1188 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1190 New face for crypto parts headers
1192 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1193 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1194 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1197 Use space as default thousands separator
1199 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1200 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1201 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1203 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1204 buttonized id: links
1206 New function notmuch-show-advance
1208 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1209 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1210 be bound to SPC with:
1212 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1214 Various performance improvements
1219 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1220 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1223 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1224 ===========================
1229 Fix crash in python bindings
1231 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1232 for some, but not all users.
1234 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1235 ===========================
1240 Fix `--help` argument
1242 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1243 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1244 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1246 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1247 =========================
1249 New build and testing features
1250 ------------------------------
1252 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1253 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1254 prerequisites is improved.
1256 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1258 New command-line features
1259 -------------------------
1261 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1263 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1264 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1267 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1269 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1270 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1271 favour of using stdout.
1273 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1275 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1276 limit the number of results shown.
1278 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1280 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1281 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1284 New emacs UI features
1285 ---------------------
1287 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1289 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1290 starting with "tag:".
1292 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1294 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1295 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1297 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1299 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1301 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1303 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1304 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1309 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1311 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1313 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1314 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1315 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1316 requires a database rebuild:
1318 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1319 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1321 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1323 New collection of add-on tools
1324 ------------------------------
1326 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1327 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1328 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1331 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1333 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1334 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1335 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1337 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1338 ========================
1340 New, general features
1341 ---------------------
1343 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1345 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1346 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1347 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1348 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1349 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1356 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1357 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1359 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1363 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1364 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1365 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1368 Python bindings changes
1369 -----------------------
1371 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1373 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1374 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1375 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1376 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1377 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1378 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1380 Ruby bindings changes
1381 ---------------------
1383 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1384 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1385 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1386 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1391 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1393 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1394 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1396 Reply formatting cleanup
1397 ------------------------
1399 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1400 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1402 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1403 ========================
1405 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1407 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1408 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1409 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1410 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1413 Improved Build system portability
1415 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1416 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1417 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1419 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1421 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1423 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1425 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1426 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1427 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1429 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1430 ========================
1432 Vim interface improvements
1433 --------------------------
1435 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1437 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1438 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1439 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1440 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1441 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1443 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1445 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1446 * fix compose temp file name
1448 Python Bindings changes
1449 -----------------------
1451 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1453 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1454 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1456 Build-System improvements
1457 -------------------------
1459 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1461 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1464 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1465 ==========================
1470 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1472 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1473 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1475 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1476 =======================
1478 New, general features
1479 ---------------------
1481 Folder-based searching
1483 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1484 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1485 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1489 For example, one might use things such as:
1495 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1496 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1498 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1499 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1500 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1501 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1503 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1504 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1505 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1508 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1509 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1511 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1513 Support for PGP/MIME
1515 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1516 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1517 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1519 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1521 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1522 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1524 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1525 notmuch will receive these tags.
1527 New command-line features
1528 -------------------------
1530 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1532 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1533 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1535 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1537 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1538 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1539 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1541 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1543 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1544 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1545 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1546 which parts a signature part applies).
1548 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1550 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1551 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1552 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1553 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1554 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1557 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1559 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1560 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1561 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1562 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1563 by translating it internally to the new call.
1565 Performance improvements
1566 ------------------------
1568 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1570 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1571 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1572 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1574 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1575 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1577 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1579 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1580 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1581 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1583 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1584 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1585 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1586 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1588 Faster initial indexing
1590 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1591 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1592 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1594 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1596 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1597 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1598 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1599 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1601 New emacs-interface features
1602 ----------------------------
1604 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1606 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1607 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1608 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1609 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1610 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1611 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1613 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1615 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1616 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1617 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1618 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1620 User-selectable From address
1622 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1623 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1624 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1625 will prompt for the from address to use.
1627 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1628 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1629 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1631 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1632 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1633 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1636 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1638 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1639 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1641 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1643 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1645 ----- Original Message -----
1647 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1648 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1649 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1650 citations work much like conventional citations.
1652 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1654 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1655 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1656 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1657 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1658 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1660 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1661 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1663 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1665 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1666 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1667 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1669 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1671 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1672 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1673 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1674 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1675 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1677 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1679 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1682 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1684 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1686 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1688 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1691 Vim interface improvements
1692 --------------------------
1694 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1696 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1697 * Implementing archive in show view
1698 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1699 * Add delete commands
1702 Bindings improvements
1703 ---------------------
1705 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1707 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1708 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1710 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1712 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1716 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1717 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1718 `list(Messages)` works now
1719 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1721 These allow, for example:
1723 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1725 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1727 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1733 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1735 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1738 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1740 New build-system features
1741 -------------------------
1743 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1745 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1746 the configure script from some other directory:
1753 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1755 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1756 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1757 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1758 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1759 manual invocation of configure.
1761 New test-suite feature
1762 ----------------------
1764 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1766 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1767 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1768 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1769 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1770 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1773 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1775 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1776 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1777 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1778 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1779 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1780 are updated to take advantage of this.
1782 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1784 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1785 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1786 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1787 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1793 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1795 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1796 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1797 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1799 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1801 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1803 to:user@elsewhere.com
1805 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1807 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1809 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1811 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1812 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1813 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1816 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1817 from the Received headers in some cases
1819 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1820 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1822 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1824 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1826 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1828 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1829 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1830 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1832 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1833 -------------------------
1835 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1837 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1838 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1839 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1841 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1843 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1844 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1845 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1848 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1850 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1851 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1852 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1853 fixed to avoid this bug.
1855 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1857 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1858 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1860 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1861 ========================
1863 New, general features
1864 ---------------------
1866 Maildir-flag synchronization
1868 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1869 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1878 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1880 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1881 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1882 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1883 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1885 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1886 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1887 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1888 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1891 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1893 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1894 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1895 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1897 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1898 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1900 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1901 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1903 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1904 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1905 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1907 New library features
1908 --------------------
1910 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1912 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1913 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1914 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1915 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1917 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1918 message with the new function:
1920 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1922 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1923 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1924 over all available filenames for a given message.
1926 New command-line features
1927 -------------------------
1929 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1931 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1932 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1933 access to the mail store itself.
1935 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1936 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1937 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1938 name of a script containing:
1940 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1942 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1943 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1949 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1951 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1953 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1955 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1956 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1957 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1958 now produces nothing).
1960 Emacs interface improvements
1961 ----------------------------
1963 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1965 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1967 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1969 Display current thread subject in a header line
1971 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1973 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1975 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1976 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1977 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1978 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1979 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1980 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1981 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1983 Vim interface improvements
1984 --------------------------
1986 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1988 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1989 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1995 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1997 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1998 ========================
2000 New command-line features
2001 -------------------------
2003 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2005 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2006 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2007 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2009 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2010 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2011 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2012 scripts. For example:
2014 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2015 <operations-on> "$file"
2018 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2020 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2021 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2022 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2023 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2024 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2025 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2027 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2029 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2030 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2031 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2032 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2034 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2036 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2037 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2038 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2039 default rather than Bcc.
2041 New library features
2042 --------------------
2044 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2046 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2047 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2052 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2054 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2055 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2056 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2057 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2058 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2059 notmuch customize interface.
2061 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2063 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2064 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2065 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2066 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2068 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2070 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2071 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2072 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2073 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2075 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2077 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2078 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2079 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2080 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2081 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2082 notmuch customize interface.
2084 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2086 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2087 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2088 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2089 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2090 notmuch customize interface.
2092 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2094 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2095 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2096 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2097 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2100 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2102 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2103 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2104 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2107 New build-system features
2108 -------------------------
2110 Various portability fixes have been applied
2112 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2113 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2114 more portable than ever before.
2116 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2118 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2119 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2120 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2122 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2123 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2124 automatically run ldconfig.
2126 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2127 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2128 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2130 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2131 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2132 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2133 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2135 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2137 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2138 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2139 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2140 used in the resulting Makefile.
2142 New test-suite features
2143 -----------------------
2145 New modularization of test suite
2147 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2148 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2149 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2150 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2151 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2152 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2153 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2154 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2156 New testing of emacs interface
2158 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2159 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2160 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2161 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2162 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2163 database via the FCC setting.
2168 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2170 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2171 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2172 persistent error of the form:
2174 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2176 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2177 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2179 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2181 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2182 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2183 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2185 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2187 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2188 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2189 parsing the notmuch results).
2191 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2193 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2196 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2197 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2198 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2203 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2205 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2206 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2207 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2208 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2209 the emacs interface.
2211 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2213 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2214 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2215 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2217 Python-binding fixes
2218 --------------------
2220 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2222 Debian-specific fixes
2223 ---------------------
2225 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2227 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2228 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2229 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2232 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2233 ==========================
2238 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2240 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2241 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2242 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2243 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2245 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2247 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2248 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2249 want notmuch to crash.
2254 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2256 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2257 directory does not exist
2262 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2264 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2265 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2267 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2268 ========================
2270 New command-line features
2271 -------------------------
2273 User-configurable tags for new messages
2275 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2276 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2277 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2278 to specify this value.
2280 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2282 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2283 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2284 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2286 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2288 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2289 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2291 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2293 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2294 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2295 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2296 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2297 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2300 Indication of author names that match a search
2302 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2303 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2304 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2305 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2306 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2307 messages in the thread are listed first.
2309 New: Python bindings
2310 --------------------
2312 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2313 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2314 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2315 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2317 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2318 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2319 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2322 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2323 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2324 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2326 Emacs interface improvements
2327 ----------------------------
2329 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2331 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2332 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2333 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2334 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2335 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2336 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2337 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2338 but without any of the disadvantages).
2340 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2341 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2342 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2345 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2346 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2347 instead running something like:
2349 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2351 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2352 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2353 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2356 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2358 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2359 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2360 tweaked by the user.
2362 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2363 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2364 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2367 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2368 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2369 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2372 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2374 This support currently relies on an external program,
2375 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2376 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2377 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2378 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2379 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2382 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2383 notmuch) is available via:
2385 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2387 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2388 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2389 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2391 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2393 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2394 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2395 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2396 making this automatic in a future release.
2398 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2400 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2401 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2402 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2403 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2404 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2405 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2408 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2410 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2411 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2412 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2414 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2416 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2417 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2418 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2420 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2421 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2422 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2423 other representation.
2425 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2426 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2429 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2431 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2432 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2433 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2435 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2436 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2437 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2439 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2441 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2442 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2443 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2444 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2445 to display the search result.
2447 More flexible handling of header visibility
2449 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2450 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2451 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2452 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2453 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2454 with the 'h' keybinding.
2456 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2457 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2458 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2460 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2462 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2464 Customizable formatting of search results
2466 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2467 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2468 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2470 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2472 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2474 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2479 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2481 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2482 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2483 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2484 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2490 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2492 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2493 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2495 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2497 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2498 accept are now all accepted.
2503 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2505 Better display of output from failed tests
2507 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2508 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2510 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2511 ========================
2513 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2514 detailed release notes this time!
2516 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2517 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2519 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2520 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2521 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2522 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2529 Better guessing of From: header
2531 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2532 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2533 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2534 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2535 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2538 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2540 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2541 guaranteed to match all messages.
2543 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2545 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2546 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2547 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2548 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2549 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2552 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2555 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2556 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2557 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2558 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2563 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2565 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2566 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2567 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2568 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2570 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2572 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2574 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2575 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2576 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2578 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2580 Previously, the user might see:
2582 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2586 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2588 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2589 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2590 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2591 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2593 Emacs client features
2594 ---------------------
2596 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2598 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2599 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2600 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2601 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2602 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2604 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2607 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2608 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2609 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2610 search with the '*' binding.
2612 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2614 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2615 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2618 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2620 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2621 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2622 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2624 Build-system features
2625 ---------------------
2627 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2629 Add support to configure for many standard options
2631 We include actual support for:
2633 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2635 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2637 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2638 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2640 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2641 separate "make install-emacs"
2643 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2645 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2646 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2647 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2649 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2652 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2653 ========================
2655 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2657 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2658 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2660 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2661 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2662 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2663 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2664 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2665 tags from messages in a thread.
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