1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
12 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
13 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
14 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
15 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
16 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
18 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
19 =========================
21 Internal test framework changes
22 -------------------------------
24 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
25 build failures in non-interactive environments.
27 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
28 =========================
33 Date range search support
35 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
36 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
37 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
38 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
39 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
42 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
44 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
45 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
46 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
47 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
48 but may be removed in a future release.
50 Command-Line Interface
51 ----------------------
53 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
55 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
56 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
58 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
60 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
61 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
62 officially deprecated.
64 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
66 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
67 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
68 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
70 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
72 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
73 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
76 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
77 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
80 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
82 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
83 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
84 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
86 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
88 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
89 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
90 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
92 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
94 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
95 output separated by null characters rather than newline
96 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
97 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
102 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
104 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
105 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
106 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
107 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
109 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
111 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
112 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
113 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
114 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
115 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
116 the behavior of this, see
117 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
118 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
120 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
121 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
122 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
124 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
126 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
127 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
130 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
132 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
133 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
134 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
135 simply displayed in place of the message.
137 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
139 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
140 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
142 Improved text/calendar content handling
144 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
145 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
146 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
147 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
149 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
151 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
152 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
153 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
154 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
156 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
158 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
159 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
160 for HTML email containing images.
162 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
164 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
166 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
168 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
171 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
173 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
174 the point where it was.
176 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
178 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
179 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
180 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
181 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
182 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
184 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
186 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
187 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
188 thread instead of the message id.
190 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
191 -----------------------------
193 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
194 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
195 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
196 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
197 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
198 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
199 further details and installation.
204 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
206 Internal test framework changes
207 -------------------------------
209 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
211 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
212 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
213 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
214 can result in buggy behavior.
216 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
217 =========================
222 Maildir tag synchronization
224 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
225 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
226 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
227 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
228 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
229 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
232 Command-Line Interface
233 ----------------------
235 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
236 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
237 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
238 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
239 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
245 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
247 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
249 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
250 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
251 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
253 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
255 It is now possible to embed newlines in
256 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
259 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
261 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
262 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
263 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
264 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
265 inside the result or message.
267 Search now uses the JSON format internally
269 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
270 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
272 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
273 user-specified formatting
275 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
276 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
277 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
278 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
279 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
281 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
282 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
284 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
285 ===========================
290 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
291 compilation error for this contrib package.
293 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
294 ===========================
299 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
301 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
302 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
303 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
304 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
306 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
307 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
310 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
311 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
312 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
313 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
316 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
318 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
321 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
322 =========================
324 Command-Line Interface
325 ----------------------
329 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
330 for a reply message and full information about the original message
331 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
332 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
334 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
335 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
336 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
337 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
341 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
342 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
344 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
345 tag in your query, for example:
347 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
349 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
350 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
352 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
353 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
355 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
357 Raw show format changes
359 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
360 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
361 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
362 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
363 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
364 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
365 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
366 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
368 Listing configuration items
370 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
376 Changes to tagging interface
378 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
379 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
380 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
381 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
382 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
383 for more information.
385 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
386 may need to update in custom configurations.
388 Reply improvement using the JSON format
390 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
391 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
392 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
393 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
396 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
397 -----------------------------
399 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
400 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
401 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
402 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
403 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
404 contrib/ from now on.
409 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
410 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
412 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
413 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
415 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
416 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
417 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
419 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
420 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
422 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
423 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
424 returning the new database object or directory object.
431 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
432 compatible with go 1.
434 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
435 =========================
437 Command-Line Interface
438 ----------------------
442 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
443 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
444 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
445 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
447 Mail store folder/file ignore
449 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
450 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
451 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
453 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
454 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
456 Unified help and manual pages
458 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
459 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
462 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
464 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
465 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
473 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
474 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
475 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
476 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
478 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
480 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
481 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
483 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
486 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
487 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
488 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
490 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
492 should be changed to:
494 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
496 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
498 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
499 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
501 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
503 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
504 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
505 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
506 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
507 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
508 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
512 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
513 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
514 of Mailing List Archives.
516 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
518 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
519 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
522 Show view archiving key binding changes
524 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
525 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
526 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
527 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
528 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
531 Support text/calendar MIME type
533 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
536 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
538 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
539 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
540 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
541 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
543 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
545 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
546 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
547 messages blue by default in the search view.
551 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
552 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
559 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
562 Python bindings changes
563 -----------------------
565 Python 3.2 compatibility
567 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
569 Added missing unicode conversions
571 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
572 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
573 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
578 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
580 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
581 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
582 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
583 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
584 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
586 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
587 ===========================
592 Fix error handling in python bindings
594 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
595 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
596 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
597 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
599 Quote MML tags in replies
601 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
602 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
603 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
604 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
605 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
606 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
607 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
608 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
610 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
611 =========================
613 Command-Line Interface
614 ----------------------
618 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
619 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
620 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
621 importing new messages into the database.
623 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
625 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
626 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
627 sometimes. This is now fixed.
632 Automatic tag query optimization
634 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
635 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
636 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
638 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
640 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
641 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
642 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
647 Reduction of memory leaks
649 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
650 and fixed in this release.
657 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
658 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
659 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
662 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
664 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
665 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
666 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
669 Improvements in saved search management
671 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
672 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
673 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
675 Hooks for notmuch-hello
677 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
678 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
679 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
681 New face for crypto parts headers
683 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
684 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
685 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
688 Use space as default thousands separator
690 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
691 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
692 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
694 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
697 New function notmuch-show-advance
699 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
700 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
701 be bound to SPC with:
703 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
705 Various performance improvements
710 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
711 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
714 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
715 ===========================
720 Fix crash in python bindings
722 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
723 for some, but not all users.
725 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
726 ===========================
731 Fix `--help` argument
733 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
734 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
735 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
737 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
738 =========================
740 New build and testing features
741 ------------------------------
743 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
744 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
745 prerequisites is improved.
747 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
749 New command-line features
750 -------------------------
752 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
754 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
755 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
758 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
760 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
761 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
762 favour of using stdout.
764 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
766 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
767 limit the number of results shown.
769 Add `notmuch count --output` option
771 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
772 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
775 New emacs UI features
776 ---------------------
778 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
780 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
781 starting with "tag:".
783 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
785 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
786 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
788 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
790 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
792 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
794 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
795 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
800 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
802 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
804 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
805 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
806 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
807 requires a database rebuild:
809 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
810 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
812 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
814 New collection of add-on tools
815 ------------------------------
817 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
818 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
819 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
822 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
824 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
825 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
826 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
828 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
829 ========================
831 New, general features
832 ---------------------
834 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
836 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
837 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
838 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
839 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
840 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
847 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
848 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
850 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
854 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
855 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
856 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
859 Python bindings changes
860 -----------------------
862 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
864 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
865 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
866 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
867 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
868 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
869 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
871 Ruby bindings changes
872 ---------------------
874 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
875 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
876 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
877 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
882 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
884 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
885 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
887 Reply formatting cleanup
888 ------------------------
890 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
891 MIME parts are being suppressed.
893 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
894 ========================
896 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
898 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
899 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
900 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
901 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
904 Improved Build system portability
906 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
907 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
908 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
910 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
912 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
914 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
916 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
917 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
918 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
920 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
921 ========================
923 Vim interface improvements
924 --------------------------
926 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
928 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
929 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
930 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
931 * fix from list reformatting in search view
932 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
934 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
936 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
937 * fix compose temp file name
939 Python Bindings changes
940 -----------------------
942 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
944 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
945 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
947 Build-System improvements
948 -------------------------
950 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
952 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
955 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
956 ==========================
961 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
963 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
964 people running gcc 4.4.5.
966 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
967 =======================
969 New, general features
970 ---------------------
972 Folder-based searching
974 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
975 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
976 storage). The syntax is as follows:
980 For example, one might use things such as:
986 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
987 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
989 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
990 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
991 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
992 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
994 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
995 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
996 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
999 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1000 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1002 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1004 Support for PGP/MIME
1006 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1007 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1008 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1010 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1012 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1013 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1015 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1016 notmuch will receive these tags.
1018 New command-line features
1019 -------------------------
1021 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1023 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1024 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1026 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1028 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1029 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1030 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1032 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1034 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1035 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1036 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1037 which parts a signature part applies).
1039 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1041 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1042 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1043 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1044 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1045 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1048 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1050 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1051 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1052 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1053 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1054 by translating it internally to the new call.
1056 Performance improvements
1057 ------------------------
1059 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1061 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1062 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1063 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1065 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1066 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1068 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1070 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1071 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1072 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1074 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1075 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1076 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1077 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1079 Faster initial indexing
1081 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1082 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1083 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1085 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1087 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1088 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1089 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1090 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1092 New emacs-interface features
1093 ----------------------------
1095 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1097 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1098 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1099 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1100 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1101 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1102 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1104 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1106 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1107 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1108 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1109 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1111 User-selectable From address
1113 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1114 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1115 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1116 will prompt for the from address to use.
1118 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1119 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1120 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1122 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1123 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1124 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1127 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1129 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1130 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1132 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1134 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1136 ----- Original Message -----
1138 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1139 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1140 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1141 citations work much like conventional citations.
1143 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1145 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1146 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1147 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1148 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1149 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1151 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1152 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1154 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1156 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1157 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1158 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1160 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1162 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1163 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1164 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1165 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1166 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1168 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1170 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1173 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1175 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1177 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1179 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1182 Vim interface improvements
1183 --------------------------
1185 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1187 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1188 * Implementing archive in show view
1189 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1190 * Add delete commands
1193 Bindings improvements
1194 ---------------------
1196 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1198 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1199 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1201 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1203 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1207 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1208 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1209 `list(Messages)` works now
1210 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1212 These allow, for example:
1214 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1216 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1218 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1224 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1226 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1229 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1231 New build-system features
1232 -------------------------
1234 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1236 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1237 the configure script from some other directory:
1244 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1246 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1247 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1248 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1249 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1250 manual invocation of configure.
1252 New test-suite feature
1253 ----------------------
1255 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1257 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1258 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1259 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1260 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1261 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1264 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1266 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1267 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1268 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1269 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1270 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1271 are updated to take advantage of this.
1273 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1275 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1276 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1277 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1278 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1284 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1286 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1287 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1288 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1290 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1292 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1294 to:user@elsewhere.com
1296 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1298 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1300 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1302 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1303 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1304 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1307 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1308 from the Received headers in some cases
1310 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1311 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1313 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1315 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1317 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1319 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1320 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1321 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1323 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1324 -------------------------
1326 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1328 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1329 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1330 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1332 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1334 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1335 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1336 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1339 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1341 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1342 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1343 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1344 fixed to avoid this bug.
1346 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1348 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1349 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1351 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1352 ========================
1354 New, general features
1355 ---------------------
1357 Maildir-flag synchronization
1359 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1360 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1369 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1371 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1372 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1373 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1374 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1376 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1377 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1378 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1379 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1382 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1384 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1385 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1386 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1388 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1389 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1391 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1392 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1394 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1395 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1396 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1398 New library features
1399 --------------------
1401 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1403 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1404 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1405 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1406 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1408 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1409 message with the new function:
1411 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1413 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1414 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1415 over all available filenames for a given message.
1417 New command-line features
1418 -------------------------
1420 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1422 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1423 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1424 access to the mail store itself.
1426 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1427 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1428 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1429 name of a script containing:
1431 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1433 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1434 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1440 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1442 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1444 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1446 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1447 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1448 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1449 now produces nothing).
1451 Emacs interface improvements
1452 ----------------------------
1454 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1456 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1458 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1460 Display current thread subject in a header line
1462 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1464 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1466 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1467 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1468 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1469 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1470 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1471 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1472 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1474 Vim interface improvements
1475 --------------------------
1477 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1479 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1480 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1486 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1488 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1489 ========================
1491 New command-line features
1492 -------------------------
1494 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1496 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1497 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1498 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1500 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1501 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1502 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1503 scripts. For example:
1505 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1506 <operations-on> "$file"
1509 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1511 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1512 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1513 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1514 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1515 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1516 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1518 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1520 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1521 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1522 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1523 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1525 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1527 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1528 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1529 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1530 default rather than Bcc.
1532 New library features
1533 --------------------
1535 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1537 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1538 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1543 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1545 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1546 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1547 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1548 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1549 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1550 notmuch customize interface.
1552 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1554 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1555 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1556 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1557 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1559 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1561 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1562 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1563 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1564 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1566 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1568 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1569 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1570 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1571 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1572 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1573 notmuch customize interface.
1575 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1577 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1578 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1579 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1580 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1581 notmuch customize interface.
1583 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1585 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1586 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1587 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1588 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1591 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1593 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1594 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1595 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1598 New build-system features
1599 -------------------------
1601 Various portability fixes have been applied
1603 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1604 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1605 more portable than ever before.
1607 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1609 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1610 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1611 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1613 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1614 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1615 automatically run ldconfig.
1617 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1618 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1619 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1621 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1622 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1623 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1624 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1626 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1628 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1629 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1630 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1631 used in the resulting Makefile.
1633 New test-suite features
1634 -----------------------
1636 New modularization of test suite
1638 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1639 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1640 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1641 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1642 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1643 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1644 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1645 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1647 New testing of emacs interface
1649 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1650 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1651 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1652 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1653 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1654 database via the FCC setting.
1659 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1661 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1662 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1663 persistent error of the form:
1665 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1667 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1668 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1670 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1672 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1673 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1674 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1676 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1678 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1679 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1680 parsing the notmuch results).
1682 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1684 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1687 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1688 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1689 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1694 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1696 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1697 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1698 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1699 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1700 the emacs interface.
1702 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1704 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1705 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1706 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1708 Python-binding fixes
1709 --------------------
1711 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1713 Debian-specific fixes
1714 ---------------------
1716 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1718 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1719 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1720 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1723 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1724 ==========================
1729 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1731 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1732 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1733 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1734 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1736 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1738 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1739 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1740 want notmuch to crash.
1745 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1747 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1748 directory does not exist
1753 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1755 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1756 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1758 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1759 ========================
1761 New command-line features
1762 -------------------------
1764 User-configurable tags for new messages
1766 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1767 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1768 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1769 to specify this value.
1771 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1773 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1774 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1775 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1777 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1779 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1780 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1782 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1784 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1785 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1786 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1787 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1788 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1791 Indication of author names that match a search
1793 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1794 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1795 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1796 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1797 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1798 messages in the thread are listed first.
1800 New: Python bindings
1801 --------------------
1803 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1804 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1805 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1806 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1808 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1809 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1810 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1813 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1814 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1815 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1817 Emacs interface improvements
1818 ----------------------------
1820 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1822 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1823 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1824 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1825 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1826 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1827 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1828 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1829 but without any of the disadvantages).
1831 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1832 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1833 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1836 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1837 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1838 instead running something like:
1840 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1842 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1843 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1844 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1847 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1849 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1850 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1851 tweaked by the user.
1853 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1854 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1855 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1858 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1859 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1860 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1863 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1865 This support currently relies on an external program,
1866 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1867 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1868 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1869 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1870 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1873 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1874 notmuch) is available via:
1876 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1878 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1879 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1880 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1882 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1884 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1885 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1886 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1887 making this automatic in a future release.
1889 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1891 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1892 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1893 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1894 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1895 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1896 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1899 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1901 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1902 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1903 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1905 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1907 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1908 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1909 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1911 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1912 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1913 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1914 other representation.
1916 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1917 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1920 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1922 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1923 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1924 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1926 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1927 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1928 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1930 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1932 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1933 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1934 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1935 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1936 to display the search result.
1938 More flexible handling of header visibility
1940 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1941 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1942 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1943 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1944 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1945 with the 'h' keybinding.
1947 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1948 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1949 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1951 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1953 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1955 Customizable formatting of search results
1957 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1958 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1959 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1961 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1963 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1965 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1970 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1972 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1973 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1974 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1975 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1981 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1983 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1984 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1986 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1988 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1989 accept are now all accepted.
1994 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1996 Better display of output from failed tests
1998 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1999 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2001 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2002 ========================
2004 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2005 detailed release notes this time!
2007 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2008 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2010 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2011 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2012 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2013 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2020 Better guessing of From: header
2022 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2023 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2024 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2025 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2026 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2029 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2031 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2032 guaranteed to match all messages.
2034 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2036 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2037 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2038 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2039 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2040 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2043 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2046 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2047 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2048 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2049 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2054 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2056 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2057 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2058 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2059 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2061 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2063 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2065 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2066 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2067 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2069 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2071 Previously, the user might see:
2073 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2077 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2079 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2080 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2081 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2082 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2084 Emacs client features
2085 ---------------------
2087 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2089 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2090 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2091 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2092 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2093 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2095 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2098 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2099 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2100 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2101 search with the '*' binding.
2103 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2105 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2106 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2109 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2111 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2112 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2113 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2115 Build-system features
2116 ---------------------
2118 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2120 Add support to configure for many standard options
2122 We include actual support for:
2124 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2126 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2128 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2129 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2131 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2132 separate "make install-emacs"
2134 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2136 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2137 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2138 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2140 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2143 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2144 ========================
2146 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2148 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2149 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2151 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2152 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2153 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2154 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2155 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2156 tags from messages in a thread.
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