1 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2 =========================
7 Maildir tag synchronization
9 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
10 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
11 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
12 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
13 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
14 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
17 Command-Line Interface
18 ----------------------
20 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
21 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
22 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
23 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
24 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
30 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
32 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
34 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
35 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
36 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
38 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
40 It is now possible to embed newlines in
41 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
44 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
46 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
47 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
48 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
49 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
50 inside the result or message.
52 Search now uses the JSON format internally
54 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
55 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
57 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
58 user-specified formatting
60 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
61 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
62 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
63 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
64 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
66 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
67 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
69 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
70 ===========================
75 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
76 compilation error for this contrib package.
78 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
79 ===========================
84 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
86 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
87 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
88 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
89 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
91 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
92 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
95 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
96 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
97 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
98 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
101 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
103 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
106 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
107 =========================
109 Command-Line Interface
110 ----------------------
114 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
115 for a reply message and full information about the original message
116 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
117 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
119 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
120 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
121 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
122 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
126 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
127 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
129 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
130 tag in your query, for example:
132 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
134 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
135 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
137 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
138 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
140 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
142 Raw show format changes
144 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
145 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
146 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
147 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
148 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
149 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
150 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
151 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
153 Listing configuration items
155 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
161 Changes to tagging interface
163 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
164 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
165 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
166 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
167 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
168 for more information.
170 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
171 may need to update in custom configurations.
173 Reply improvement using the JSON format
175 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
176 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
177 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
178 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
181 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
182 -----------------------------
184 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
185 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
186 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
187 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
188 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
189 contrib/ from now on.
194 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
195 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
197 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
198 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
200 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
201 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
202 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
204 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
205 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
207 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
208 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
209 returning the new database object or directory object.
216 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
217 compatible with go 1.
219 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
220 =========================
222 Command-Line Interface
223 ----------------------
227 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
228 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
229 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
230 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
232 Mail store folder/file ignore
234 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
235 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
236 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
238 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
239 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
241 Unified help and manual pages
243 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
244 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
247 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
249 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
250 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
258 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
259 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
260 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
261 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
263 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
265 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
266 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
268 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
271 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
272 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
273 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
275 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
277 should be changed to:
279 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
281 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
283 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
284 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
286 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
288 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
289 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
290 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
291 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
292 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
293 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
297 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
298 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
299 of Mailing List Archives.
301 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
303 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
304 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
307 Show view archiving key binding changes
309 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
310 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
311 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
312 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
313 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
316 Support text/calendar MIME type
318 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
321 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
323 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
324 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
325 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
326 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
328 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
330 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
331 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
332 messages blue by default in the search view.
336 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
337 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
344 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
347 Python bindings changes
348 -----------------------
350 Python 3.2 compatibility
352 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
354 Added missing unicode conversions
356 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
357 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
358 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
363 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
365 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
366 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
367 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
368 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
369 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
371 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
372 ===========================
377 Fix error handling in python bindings
379 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
380 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
381 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
382 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
384 Quote MML tags in replies
386 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
387 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
388 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
389 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
390 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
391 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
392 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
393 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
395 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
396 =========================
398 Command-Line Interface
399 ----------------------
403 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
404 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
405 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
406 importing new messages into the database.
408 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
410 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
411 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
412 sometimes. This is now fixed.
417 Automatic tag query optimization
419 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
420 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
421 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
423 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
425 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
426 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
427 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
432 Reduction of memory leaks
434 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
435 and fixed in this release.
442 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
443 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
444 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
447 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
449 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
450 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
451 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
454 Improvements in saved search management
456 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
457 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
458 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
460 Hooks for notmuch-hello
462 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
463 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
464 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
466 New face for crypto parts headers
468 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
469 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
470 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
473 Use space as default thousands separator
475 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
476 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
477 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
479 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
482 New function notmuch-show-advance
484 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
485 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
486 be bound to SPC with:
488 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
490 Various performance improvements
495 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
496 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
499 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
500 ===========================
505 Fix crash in python bindings
507 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
508 for some, but not all users.
510 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
511 ===========================
516 Fix `--help` argument
518 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
519 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
520 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
522 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
523 =========================
525 New build and testing features
526 ------------------------------
528 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
529 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
530 prerequisites is improved.
532 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
534 New command-line features
535 -------------------------
537 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
539 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
540 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
543 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
545 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
546 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
547 favour of using stdout.
549 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
551 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
552 limit the number of results shown.
554 Add `notmuch count --output` option
556 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
557 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
560 New emacs UI features
561 ---------------------
563 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
565 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
566 starting with "tag:".
568 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
570 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
571 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
573 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
575 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
577 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
579 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
580 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
585 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
587 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
589 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
590 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
591 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
592 requires a database rebuild:
594 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
595 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
597 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
599 New collection of add-on tools
600 ------------------------------
602 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
603 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
604 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
607 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
609 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
610 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
611 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
613 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
614 ========================
616 New, general features
617 ---------------------
619 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
621 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
622 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
623 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
624 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
625 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
632 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
633 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
635 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
639 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
640 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
641 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
644 Python bindings changes
645 -----------------------
647 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
649 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
650 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
651 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
652 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
653 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
654 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
656 Ruby bindings changes
657 ---------------------
659 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
660 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
661 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
662 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
667 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
669 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
670 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
672 Reply formatting cleanup
673 ------------------------
675 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
676 MIME parts are being suppressed.
678 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
679 ========================
681 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
683 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
684 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
685 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
686 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
689 Improved Build system portability
691 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
692 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
693 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
695 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
697 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
699 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
701 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
702 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
703 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
705 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
706 ========================
708 Vim interface improvements
709 --------------------------
711 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
713 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
714 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
715 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
716 * fix from list reformatting in search view
717 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
719 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
721 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
722 * fix compose temp file name
724 Python Bindings changes
725 -----------------------
727 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
729 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
730 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
732 Build-System improvements
733 -------------------------
735 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
737 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
740 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
741 ==========================
746 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
748 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
749 people running gcc 4.4.5.
751 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
752 =======================
754 New, general features
755 ---------------------
757 Folder-based searching
759 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
760 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
761 storage). The syntax is as follows:
765 For example, one might use things such as:
771 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
772 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
774 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
775 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
776 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
777 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
779 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
780 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
781 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
784 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
785 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
787 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
791 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
792 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
793 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
795 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
797 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
798 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
800 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
801 notmuch will receive these tags.
803 New command-line features
804 -------------------------
806 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
808 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
809 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
811 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
813 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
814 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
815 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
817 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
819 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
820 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
821 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
822 which parts a signature part applies).
824 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
826 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
827 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
828 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
829 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
830 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
833 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
835 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
836 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
837 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
838 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
839 by translating it internally to the new call.
841 Performance improvements
842 ------------------------
844 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
846 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
847 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
848 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
850 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
851 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
853 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
855 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
856 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
857 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
859 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
860 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
861 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
862 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
864 Faster initial indexing
866 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
867 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
868 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
870 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
872 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
873 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
874 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
875 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
877 New emacs-interface features
878 ----------------------------
880 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
882 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
883 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
884 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
885 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
886 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
887 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
889 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
891 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
892 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
893 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
894 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
896 User-selectable From address
898 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
899 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
900 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
901 will prompt for the from address to use.
903 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
904 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
905 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
907 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
908 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
909 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
912 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
914 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
915 its parent, the subject is not shown.
917 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
919 When a message contains a line looking something like:
921 ----- Original Message -----
923 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
924 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
925 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
926 citations work much like conventional citations.
928 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
930 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
931 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
932 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
933 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
934 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
936 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
937 Notmuch After Tag Hook
939 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
941 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
942 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
943 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
945 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
947 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
948 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
949 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
950 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
951 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
953 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
955 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
958 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
960 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
962 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
964 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
967 Vim interface improvements
968 --------------------------
970 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
972 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
973 * Implementing archive in show view
974 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
975 * Add delete commands
978 Bindings improvements
979 ---------------------
981 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
983 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
984 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
986 Python bindings have been updated and extended
988 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
992 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
993 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
994 `list(Messages)` works now
995 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
997 These allow, for example:
1001 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1003 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1009 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1011 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1014 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1016 New build-system features
1017 -------------------------
1019 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1021 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1022 the configure script from some other directory:
1029 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1031 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1032 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1033 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1034 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1035 manual invocation of configure.
1037 New test-suite feature
1038 ----------------------
1040 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1042 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1043 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1044 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1045 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1046 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1049 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1051 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1052 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1053 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1054 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1055 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1056 are updated to take advantage of this.
1058 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1060 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1061 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1062 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1063 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1069 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1071 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1072 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1073 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1075 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1077 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1079 to:user@elsewhere.com
1081 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1083 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1085 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1087 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1088 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1089 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1092 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1093 from the Received headers in some cases
1095 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1096 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1098 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1100 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1102 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1104 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1105 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1106 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1108 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1109 -------------------------
1111 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1113 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1114 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1115 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1117 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1119 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1120 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1121 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1124 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1126 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1127 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1128 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1129 fixed to avoid this bug.
1131 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1133 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1134 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1136 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1137 ========================
1139 New, general features
1140 ---------------------
1142 Maildir-flag synchronization
1144 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1145 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1154 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1156 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1157 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1158 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1159 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1161 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1162 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1163 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1164 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1167 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1169 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1170 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1171 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1173 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1174 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1176 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1177 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1179 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1180 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1181 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1183 New library features
1184 --------------------
1186 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1188 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1189 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1190 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1191 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1193 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1194 message with the new function:
1196 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1198 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1199 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1200 over all available filenames for a given message.
1202 New command-line features
1203 -------------------------
1205 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1207 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1208 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1209 access to the mail store itself.
1211 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1212 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1213 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1214 name of a script containing:
1216 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1218 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1219 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1225 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1227 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1229 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1231 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1232 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1233 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1234 now produces nothing).
1236 Emacs interface improvements
1237 ----------------------------
1239 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1241 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1243 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1245 Display current thread subject in a header line
1247 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1249 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1251 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1252 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1253 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1254 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1255 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1256 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1257 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1259 Vim interface improvements
1260 --------------------------
1262 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1264 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1265 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1271 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1273 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1274 ========================
1276 New command-line features
1277 -------------------------
1279 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1281 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1282 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1283 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1285 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1286 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1287 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1288 scripts. For example:
1290 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1291 <operations-on> "$file"
1294 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1296 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1297 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1298 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1299 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1300 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1301 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1303 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1305 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1306 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1307 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1308 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1310 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1312 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1313 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1314 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1315 default rather than Bcc.
1317 New library features
1318 --------------------
1320 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1322 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1323 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1328 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1330 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1331 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1332 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1333 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1334 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1335 notmuch customize interface.
1337 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1339 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1340 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1341 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1342 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1344 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1346 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1347 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1348 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1349 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1351 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1353 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1354 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1355 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1356 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1357 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1358 notmuch customize interface.
1360 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1362 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1363 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1364 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1365 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1366 notmuch customize interface.
1368 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1370 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1371 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1372 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1373 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1376 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1378 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1379 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1380 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1383 New build-system features
1384 -------------------------
1386 Various portability fixes have been applied
1388 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1389 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1390 more portable than ever before.
1392 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1394 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1395 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1396 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1398 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1399 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1400 automatically run ldconfig.
1402 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1403 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1404 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1406 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1407 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1408 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1409 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1411 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1413 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1414 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1415 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1416 used in the resulting Makefile.
1418 New test-suite features
1419 -----------------------
1421 New modularization of test suite
1423 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1424 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1425 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1426 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1427 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1428 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1429 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1430 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1432 New testing of emacs interface
1434 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1435 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1436 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1437 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1438 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1439 database via the FCC setting.
1444 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1446 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1447 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1448 persistent error of the form:
1450 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1452 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1453 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1455 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1457 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1458 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1459 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1461 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1463 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1464 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1465 parsing the notmuch results).
1467 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1469 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1472 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1473 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1474 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1479 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1481 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1482 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1483 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1484 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1485 the emacs interface.
1487 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1489 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1490 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1491 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1493 Python-binding fixes
1494 --------------------
1496 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1498 Debian-specific fixes
1499 ---------------------
1501 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1503 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1504 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1505 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1508 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1509 ==========================
1514 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1516 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1517 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1518 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1519 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1521 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1523 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1524 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1525 want notmuch to crash.
1530 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1532 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1533 directory does not exist
1538 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1540 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1541 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1543 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1544 ========================
1546 New command-line features
1547 -------------------------
1549 User-configurable tags for new messages
1551 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1552 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1553 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1554 to specify this value.
1556 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1558 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1559 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1560 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1562 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1564 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1565 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1567 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1569 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1570 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1571 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1572 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1573 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1576 Indication of author names that match a search
1578 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1579 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1580 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1581 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1582 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1583 messages in the thread are listed first.
1585 New: Python bindings
1586 --------------------
1588 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1589 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1590 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1591 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1593 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1594 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1595 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1598 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1599 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1600 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1602 Emacs interface improvements
1603 ----------------------------
1605 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1607 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1608 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1609 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1610 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1611 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1612 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1613 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1614 but without any of the disadvantages).
1616 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1617 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1618 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1621 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1622 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1623 instead running something like:
1625 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1627 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1628 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1629 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1632 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1634 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1635 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1636 tweaked by the user.
1638 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1639 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1640 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1643 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1644 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1645 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1648 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1650 This support currently relies on an external program,
1651 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1652 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1653 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1654 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1655 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1658 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1659 notmuch) is available via:
1661 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1663 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1664 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1665 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1667 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1669 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1670 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1671 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1672 making this automatic in a future release.
1674 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1676 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1677 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1678 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1679 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1680 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1681 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1684 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1686 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1687 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1688 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1690 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1692 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1693 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1694 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1696 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1697 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1698 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1699 other representation.
1701 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1702 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1705 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1707 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1708 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1709 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1711 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1712 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1713 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1715 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1717 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1718 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1719 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1720 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1721 to display the search result.
1723 More flexible handling of header visibility
1725 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1726 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1727 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1728 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1729 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1730 with the 'h' keybinding.
1732 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1733 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1734 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1736 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1738 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1740 Customizable formatting of search results
1742 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1743 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1744 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1746 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1748 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1750 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1755 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1757 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1758 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1759 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1760 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1766 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1768 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1769 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1771 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1773 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1774 accept are now all accepted.
1779 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1781 Better display of output from failed tests
1783 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1784 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1786 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1787 ========================
1789 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1790 detailed release notes this time!
1792 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1793 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1795 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1796 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1797 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1798 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1805 Better guessing of From: header
1807 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1808 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1809 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1810 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1811 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1814 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1816 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1817 guaranteed to match all messages.
1819 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1821 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1822 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1823 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1824 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1825 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1828 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1831 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1832 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1833 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1834 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1839 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1841 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1842 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1843 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1844 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1846 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1848 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1850 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1851 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1852 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1854 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1856 Previously, the user might see:
1858 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1862 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1864 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1865 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1866 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1867 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1869 Emacs client features
1870 ---------------------
1872 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1874 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1875 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1876 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1877 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1878 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1880 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1883 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1884 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1885 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1886 search with the '*' binding.
1888 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1890 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1891 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1894 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1896 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1897 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1898 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1900 Build-system features
1901 ---------------------
1903 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1905 Add support to configure for many standard options
1907 We include actual support for:
1909 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1911 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1913 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1914 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1916 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1917 separate "make install-emacs"
1919 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1921 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1922 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1923 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1925 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1928 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1929 ========================
1931 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1933 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1934 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1936 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1937 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1938 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1939 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1940 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1941 tags from messages in a thread.
1948 indent-tabs-mode: nil