1 Notmuch 0.18 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
20 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
21 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
22 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
23 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
24 `~/.emacs` with these.
26 Changed format for saved searches
28 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
29 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
30 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
31 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
34 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
35 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
36 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
37 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
39 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
40 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
41 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
43 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
44 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
45 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
46 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
47 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
49 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
51 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
52 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
53 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
57 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
58 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
59 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
60 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
61 these differ from each other.
62 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
64 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
66 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
67 newlines before calling notmuch count.
69 Bug fixes for sender identities
71 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
72 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
73 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
78 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
79 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
81 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
82 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
83 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
84 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
86 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
87 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
88 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
89 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
90 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
92 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
94 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
95 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
97 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
98 =========================
100 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
101 ---------------------------------------
103 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
104 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
105 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
106 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
107 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
108 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
109 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
113 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
114 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
116 Command-Line Interface
117 ----------------------
119 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
121 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
122 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
123 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
124 print for each message.
126 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
127 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
128 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
129 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
131 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
133 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
134 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
135 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
137 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
139 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
140 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
141 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
142 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
144 `notmuch compact` command
146 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
147 functionality through a more convenient interface than
148 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
149 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
150 move the compacted database into place.
155 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
157 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
158 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
159 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
160 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
161 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
162 and multiple threads.
166 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
168 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
169 search, show and tree mode itself)
171 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
174 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
175 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
177 Customising `notmuch-tree`
179 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
180 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
181 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
182 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
183 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
184 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
185 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
187 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
189 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
190 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
191 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
192 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
193 thread when the search was performed.
195 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
197 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
198 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
199 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
201 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
203 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
204 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
207 Built-in help improvements
209 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
210 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
211 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
213 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
215 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
216 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
217 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
219 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
221 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
222 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
224 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
226 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
227 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
228 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
229 to move some of them to the common keymap.
231 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
233 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
234 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
235 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
236 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
238 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
240 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
241 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
242 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
244 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
246 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
247 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
248 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
250 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
252 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
253 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
254 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
255 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
256 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
258 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
260 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
261 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
262 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
263 the body part of the message.
268 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
269 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
270 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
272 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
273 =========================
275 Command-Line Interface
276 ----------------------
278 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
280 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
281 folder and notmuch index.
283 `notmuch count --batch` option
285 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
286 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
288 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
290 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
291 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
292 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
295 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
297 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
298 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
299 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
300 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
301 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
304 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
306 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
307 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
309 Top level option to specify configuration file
311 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
312 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
314 Bash command-line completion
316 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
317 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
318 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
319 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
320 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
321 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
322 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
323 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
324 bash-completion package.
326 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
331 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
333 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
334 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
335 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
336 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
337 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
338 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
339 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
340 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
342 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
344 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
345 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
346 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
348 Key bindings for next/previous thread
350 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
351 previous thread in the search results.
353 Better handling of errors in search buffers
355 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
356 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
358 Faster search and show
360 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
361 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
362 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
363 threads should show faster.
367 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
368 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
369 in question was now removed from this release.
374 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
375 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
380 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
382 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
383 ===========================
388 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
390 Internal test framework changes
391 -------------------------------
393 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
396 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
397 ===========================
399 Internal test framework changes
400 -------------------------------
402 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
403 build failures in non-interactive environments.
405 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
406 =========================
411 Date range search support
413 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
414 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
415 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
416 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
417 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
420 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
422 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
423 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
424 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
425 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
426 but may be removed in a future release.
428 Command-Line Interface
429 ----------------------
431 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
433 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
434 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
436 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
438 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
439 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
440 officially deprecated.
442 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
444 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
445 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
446 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
448 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
450 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
451 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
454 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
455 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
458 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
460 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
461 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
462 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
464 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
466 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
467 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
468 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
470 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
472 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
473 output separated by null characters rather than newline
474 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
475 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
480 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
482 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
483 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
484 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
485 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
487 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
489 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
490 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
491 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
492 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
493 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
494 the behavior of this, see
495 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
496 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
498 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
499 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
500 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
502 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
504 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
505 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
508 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
510 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
511 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
512 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
513 simply displayed in place of the message.
515 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
517 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
518 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
520 Improved text/calendar content handling
522 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
523 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
524 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
525 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
527 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
529 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
530 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
531 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
532 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
534 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
536 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
537 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
538 for HTML email containing images.
540 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
542 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
544 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
546 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
549 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
551 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
552 the point where it was.
554 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
556 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
557 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
558 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
559 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
560 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
562 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
564 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
565 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
566 thread instead of the message id.
568 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
569 -----------------------------
571 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
572 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
573 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
574 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
575 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
576 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
577 further details and installation.
582 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
584 Internal test framework changes
585 -------------------------------
587 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
589 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
590 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
591 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
592 can result in buggy behavior.
594 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
595 =========================
600 Maildir tag synchronization
602 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
603 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
604 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
605 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
606 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
607 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
610 Command-Line Interface
611 ----------------------
613 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
614 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
615 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
616 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
617 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
623 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
625 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
627 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
628 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
629 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
631 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
633 It is now possible to embed newlines in
634 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
637 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
639 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
640 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
641 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
642 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
643 inside the result or message.
645 Search now uses the JSON format internally
647 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
648 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
650 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
651 user-specified formatting
653 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
654 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
655 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
656 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
657 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
659 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
660 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
662 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
663 ===========================
668 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
669 compilation error for this contrib package.
671 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
672 ===========================
677 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
679 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
680 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
681 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
682 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
684 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
685 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
688 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
689 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
690 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
691 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
694 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
696 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
699 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
700 =========================
702 Command-Line Interface
703 ----------------------
707 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
708 for a reply message and full information about the original message
709 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
710 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
712 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
713 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
714 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
715 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
719 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
720 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
722 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
723 tag in your query, for example:
725 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
727 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
728 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
730 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
731 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
733 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
735 Raw show format changes
737 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
738 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
739 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
740 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
741 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
742 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
743 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
744 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
746 Listing configuration items
748 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
754 Changes to tagging interface
756 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
757 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
758 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
759 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
760 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
761 for more information.
763 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
764 may need to update in custom configurations.
766 Reply improvement using the JSON format
768 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
769 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
770 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
771 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
774 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
775 -----------------------------
777 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
778 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
779 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
780 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
781 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
782 contrib/ from now on.
787 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
788 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
790 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
791 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
793 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
794 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
795 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
797 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
798 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
800 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
801 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
802 returning the new database object or directory object.
809 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
810 compatible with go 1.
812 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
813 =========================
815 Command-Line Interface
816 ----------------------
820 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
821 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
822 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
823 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
825 Mail store folder/file ignore
827 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
828 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
829 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
831 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
832 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
834 Unified help and manual pages
836 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
837 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
840 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
842 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
843 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
851 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
852 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
853 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
854 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
856 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
858 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
859 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
861 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
864 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
865 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
866 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
868 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
870 should be changed to:
872 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
874 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
876 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
877 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
879 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
881 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
882 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
883 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
884 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
885 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
886 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
890 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
891 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
892 of Mailing List Archives.
894 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
896 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
897 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
900 Show view archiving key binding changes
902 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
903 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
904 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
905 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
906 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
909 Support text/calendar MIME type
911 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
914 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
916 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
917 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
918 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
919 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
921 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
923 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
924 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
925 messages blue by default in the search view.
929 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
930 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
937 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
940 Python bindings changes
941 -----------------------
943 Python 3.2 compatibility
945 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
947 Added missing unicode conversions
949 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
950 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
951 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
956 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
958 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
959 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
960 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
961 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
962 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
964 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
965 ===========================
970 Fix error handling in python bindings
972 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
973 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
974 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
975 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
977 Quote MML tags in replies
979 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
980 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
981 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
982 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
983 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
984 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
985 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
986 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
988 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
989 =========================
991 Command-Line Interface
992 ----------------------
996 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
997 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
998 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
999 importing new messages into the database.
1001 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1003 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1004 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1005 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1010 Automatic tag query optimization
1012 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1013 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1014 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1016 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1018 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1019 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1020 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1025 Reduction of memory leaks
1027 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1028 and fixed in this release.
1035 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1036 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1037 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1040 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1042 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1043 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1044 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1047 Improvements in saved search management
1049 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1050 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1051 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1053 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1055 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1056 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1057 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1059 New face for crypto parts headers
1061 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1062 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1063 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1066 Use space as default thousands separator
1068 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1069 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1070 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1072 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1073 buttonized id: links
1075 New function notmuch-show-advance
1077 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1078 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1079 be bound to SPC with:
1081 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1083 Various performance improvements
1088 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1089 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1092 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1093 ===========================
1098 Fix crash in python bindings
1100 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1101 for some, but not all users.
1103 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1104 ===========================
1109 Fix `--help` argument
1111 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1112 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1113 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1115 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1116 =========================
1118 New build and testing features
1119 ------------------------------
1121 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1122 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1123 prerequisites is improved.
1125 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1127 New command-line features
1128 -------------------------
1130 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1132 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1133 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1136 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1138 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1139 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1140 favour of using stdout.
1142 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1144 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1145 limit the number of results shown.
1147 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1149 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1150 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1153 New emacs UI features
1154 ---------------------
1156 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1158 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1159 starting with "tag:".
1161 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1163 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1164 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1166 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1168 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1170 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1172 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1173 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1178 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1180 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1182 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1183 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1184 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1185 requires a database rebuild:
1187 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1188 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1190 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1192 New collection of add-on tools
1193 ------------------------------
1195 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1196 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1197 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1200 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1202 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1203 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1204 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1206 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1207 ========================
1209 New, general features
1210 ---------------------
1212 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1214 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1215 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1216 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1217 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1218 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1225 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1226 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1228 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1232 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1233 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1234 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1237 Python bindings changes
1238 -----------------------
1240 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1242 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1243 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1244 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1245 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1246 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1247 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1249 Ruby bindings changes
1250 ---------------------
1252 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1253 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1254 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1255 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1260 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1262 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1263 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1265 Reply formatting cleanup
1266 ------------------------
1268 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1269 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1271 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1272 ========================
1274 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1276 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1277 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1278 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1279 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1282 Improved Build system portability
1284 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1285 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1286 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1288 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1290 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1292 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1294 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1295 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1296 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1298 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1299 ========================
1301 Vim interface improvements
1302 --------------------------
1304 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1306 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1307 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1308 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1309 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1310 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1312 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1314 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1315 * fix compose temp file name
1317 Python Bindings changes
1318 -----------------------
1320 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1322 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1323 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1325 Build-System improvements
1326 -------------------------
1328 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1330 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1333 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1334 ==========================
1339 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1341 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1342 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1344 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1345 =======================
1347 New, general features
1348 ---------------------
1350 Folder-based searching
1352 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1353 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1354 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1358 For example, one might use things such as:
1364 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1365 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1367 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1368 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1369 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1370 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1372 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1373 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1374 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1377 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1378 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1380 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1382 Support for PGP/MIME
1384 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1385 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1386 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1388 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1390 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1391 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1393 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1394 notmuch will receive these tags.
1396 New command-line features
1397 -------------------------
1399 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1401 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1402 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1404 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1406 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1407 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1408 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1410 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1412 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1413 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1414 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1415 which parts a signature part applies).
1417 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1419 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1420 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1421 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1422 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1423 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1426 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1428 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1429 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1430 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1431 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1432 by translating it internally to the new call.
1434 Performance improvements
1435 ------------------------
1437 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1439 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1440 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1441 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1443 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1444 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1446 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1448 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1449 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1450 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1452 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1453 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1454 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1455 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1457 Faster initial indexing
1459 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1460 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1461 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1463 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1465 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1466 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1467 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1468 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1470 New emacs-interface features
1471 ----------------------------
1473 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1475 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1476 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1477 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1478 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1479 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1480 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1482 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1484 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1485 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1486 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1487 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1489 User-selectable From address
1491 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1492 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1493 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1494 will prompt for the from address to use.
1496 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1497 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1498 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1500 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1501 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1502 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1505 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1507 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1508 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1510 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1512 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1514 ----- Original Message -----
1516 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1517 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1518 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1519 citations work much like conventional citations.
1521 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1523 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1524 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1525 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1526 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1527 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1529 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1530 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1532 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1534 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1535 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1536 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1538 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1540 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1541 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1542 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1543 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1544 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1546 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1548 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1551 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1553 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1555 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1557 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1560 Vim interface improvements
1561 --------------------------
1563 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1565 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1566 * Implementing archive in show view
1567 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1568 * Add delete commands
1571 Bindings improvements
1572 ---------------------
1574 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1576 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1577 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1579 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1581 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1585 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1586 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1587 `list(Messages)` works now
1588 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1590 These allow, for example:
1592 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1594 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1596 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1602 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1604 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1607 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1609 New build-system features
1610 -------------------------
1612 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1614 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1615 the configure script from some other directory:
1622 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1624 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1625 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1626 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1627 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1628 manual invocation of configure.
1630 New test-suite feature
1631 ----------------------
1633 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1635 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1636 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1637 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1638 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1639 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1642 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1644 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1645 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1646 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1647 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1648 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1649 are updated to take advantage of this.
1651 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1653 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1654 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1655 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1656 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1662 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1664 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1665 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1666 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1668 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1670 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1672 to:user@elsewhere.com
1674 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1676 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1678 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1680 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1681 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1682 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1685 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1686 from the Received headers in some cases
1688 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1689 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1691 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1693 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1695 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1697 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1698 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1699 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1701 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1702 -------------------------
1704 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1706 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1707 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1708 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1710 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1712 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1713 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1714 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1717 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1719 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1720 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1721 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1722 fixed to avoid this bug.
1724 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1726 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1727 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1729 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1730 ========================
1732 New, general features
1733 ---------------------
1735 Maildir-flag synchronization
1737 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1738 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1747 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1749 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1750 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1751 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1752 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1754 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1755 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1756 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1757 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1760 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1762 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1763 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1764 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1766 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1767 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1769 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1770 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1772 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1773 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1774 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1776 New library features
1777 --------------------
1779 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1781 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1782 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1783 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1784 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1786 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1787 message with the new function:
1789 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1791 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1792 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1793 over all available filenames for a given message.
1795 New command-line features
1796 -------------------------
1798 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1800 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1801 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1802 access to the mail store itself.
1804 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1805 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1806 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1807 name of a script containing:
1809 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1811 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1812 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1818 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1820 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1822 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1824 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1825 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1826 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1827 now produces nothing).
1829 Emacs interface improvements
1830 ----------------------------
1832 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1834 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1836 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1838 Display current thread subject in a header line
1840 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1842 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1844 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1845 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1846 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1847 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1848 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1849 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1850 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1852 Vim interface improvements
1853 --------------------------
1855 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1857 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1858 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1864 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1866 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1867 ========================
1869 New command-line features
1870 -------------------------
1872 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1874 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1875 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1876 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1878 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1879 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1880 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1881 scripts. For example:
1883 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1884 <operations-on> "$file"
1887 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1889 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1890 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1891 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1892 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1893 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1894 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1896 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1898 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1899 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1900 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1901 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1903 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1905 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1906 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1907 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1908 default rather than Bcc.
1910 New library features
1911 --------------------
1913 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1915 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1916 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1921 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1923 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1924 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1925 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1926 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1927 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1928 notmuch customize interface.
1930 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1932 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1933 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1934 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1935 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1937 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1939 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1940 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1941 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1942 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1944 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1946 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1947 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1948 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1949 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1950 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1951 notmuch customize interface.
1953 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1955 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1956 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1957 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1958 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1959 notmuch customize interface.
1961 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1963 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1964 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1965 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1966 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1969 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1971 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1972 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1973 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1976 New build-system features
1977 -------------------------
1979 Various portability fixes have been applied
1981 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1982 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1983 more portable than ever before.
1985 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1987 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1988 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1989 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1991 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1992 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1993 automatically run ldconfig.
1995 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1996 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1997 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1999 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2000 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2001 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2002 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2004 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2006 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2007 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2008 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2009 used in the resulting Makefile.
2011 New test-suite features
2012 -----------------------
2014 New modularization of test suite
2016 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2017 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2018 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2019 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2020 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2021 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2022 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2023 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2025 New testing of emacs interface
2027 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2028 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2029 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2030 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2031 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2032 database via the FCC setting.
2037 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2039 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2040 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2041 persistent error of the form:
2043 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2045 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2046 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2048 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2050 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2051 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2052 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2054 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2056 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2057 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2058 parsing the notmuch results).
2060 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2062 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2065 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2066 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2067 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2072 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2074 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2075 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2076 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2077 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2078 the emacs interface.
2080 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2082 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2083 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2084 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2086 Python-binding fixes
2087 --------------------
2089 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2091 Debian-specific fixes
2092 ---------------------
2094 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2096 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2097 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2098 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2101 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2102 ==========================
2107 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2109 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2110 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2111 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2112 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2114 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2116 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2117 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2118 want notmuch to crash.
2123 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2125 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2126 directory does not exist
2131 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2133 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2134 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2136 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2137 ========================
2139 New command-line features
2140 -------------------------
2142 User-configurable tags for new messages
2144 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2145 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2146 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2147 to specify this value.
2149 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2151 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2152 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2153 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2155 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2157 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2158 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2160 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2162 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2163 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2164 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2165 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2166 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2169 Indication of author names that match a search
2171 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2172 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2173 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2174 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2175 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2176 messages in the thread are listed first.
2178 New: Python bindings
2179 --------------------
2181 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2182 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2183 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2184 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2186 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2187 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2188 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2191 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2192 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2193 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2195 Emacs interface improvements
2196 ----------------------------
2198 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2200 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2201 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2202 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2203 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2204 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2205 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2206 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2207 but without any of the disadvantages).
2209 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2210 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2211 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2214 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2215 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2216 instead running something like:
2218 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2220 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2221 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2222 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2225 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2227 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2228 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2229 tweaked by the user.
2231 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2232 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2233 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2236 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2237 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2238 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2241 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2243 This support currently relies on an external program,
2244 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2245 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2246 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2247 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2248 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2251 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2252 notmuch) is available via:
2254 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2256 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2257 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2258 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2260 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2262 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2263 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2264 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2265 making this automatic in a future release.
2267 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2269 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2270 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2271 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2272 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2273 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2274 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2277 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2279 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2280 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2281 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2283 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2285 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2286 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2287 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2289 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2290 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2291 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2292 other representation.
2294 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2295 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2298 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2300 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2301 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2302 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2304 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2305 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2306 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2308 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2310 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2311 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2312 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2313 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2314 to display the search result.
2316 More flexible handling of header visibility
2318 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2319 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2320 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2321 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2322 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2323 with the 'h' keybinding.
2325 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2326 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2327 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2329 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2331 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2333 Customizable formatting of search results
2335 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2336 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2337 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2339 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2341 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2343 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2348 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2350 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2351 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2352 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2353 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2359 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2361 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2362 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2364 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2366 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2367 accept are now all accepted.
2372 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2374 Better display of output from failed tests
2376 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2377 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2379 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2380 ========================
2382 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2383 detailed release notes this time!
2385 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2386 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2388 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2389 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2390 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2391 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2398 Better guessing of From: header
2400 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2401 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2402 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2403 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2404 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2407 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2409 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2410 guaranteed to match all messages.
2412 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2414 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2415 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2416 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2417 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2418 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2421 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2424 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2425 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2426 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2427 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2432 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2434 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2435 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2436 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2437 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2439 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2441 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2443 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2444 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2445 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2447 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2449 Previously, the user might see:
2451 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2455 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2457 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2458 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2459 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2460 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2462 Emacs client features
2463 ---------------------
2465 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2467 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2468 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2469 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2470 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2471 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2473 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2476 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2477 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2478 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2479 search with the '*' binding.
2481 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2483 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2484 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2487 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2489 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2490 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2491 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2493 Build-system features
2494 ---------------------
2496 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2498 Add support to configure for many standard options
2500 We include actual support for:
2502 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2504 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2506 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2507 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2509 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2510 separate "make install-emacs"
2512 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2514 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2515 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2516 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2518 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2521 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2522 ========================
2524 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2526 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2527 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2529 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2530 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2531 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2532 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2533 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2534 tags from messages in a thread.
2541 indent-tabs-mode: nil