1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Date range search support
9 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
10 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
11 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
12 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
13 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
16 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
18 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
19 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
20 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
21 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
22 but may be removed in a future release.
24 Command-Line Interface
25 ----------------------
27 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
29 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
30 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
32 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
34 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
35 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
36 officially deprecated.
38 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
40 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
41 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
42 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
44 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
46 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
47 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
48 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
50 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
52 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
53 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
54 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
56 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
58 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
59 output separated by null characters rather than newline
60 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
61 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
66 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
68 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
69 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
70 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
71 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
73 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
75 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
76 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
77 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
78 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
79 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
80 the behavior of this, see
81 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
82 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
84 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
86 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
87 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
90 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
92 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
93 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
94 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
95 simply displayed in place of the message.
97 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
99 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
100 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
102 Improved text/calendar content handling
104 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
105 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
106 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
107 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
109 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
111 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
112 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
113 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
114 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
116 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
118 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
119 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
120 for HTML email containing images.
122 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
124 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
126 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
128 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
131 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
133 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
134 the point where it was.
136 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
138 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
139 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
140 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
141 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
142 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
144 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
146 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
147 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
148 thread instead of the message id.
150 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
151 -----------------------------
153 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
154 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
155 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
156 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
157 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
158 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
159 further details and installation.
164 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
166 Internal test framework changes
167 -------------------------------
169 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
171 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
172 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
173 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
174 can result in buggy behavior.
176 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
177 =========================
182 Maildir tag synchronization
184 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
185 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
186 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
187 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
188 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
189 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
192 Command-Line Interface
193 ----------------------
195 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
196 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
197 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
198 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
199 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
205 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
207 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
209 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
210 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
211 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
213 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
215 It is now possible to embed newlines in
216 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
219 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
221 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
222 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
223 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
224 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
225 inside the result or message.
227 Search now uses the JSON format internally
229 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
230 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
232 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
233 user-specified formatting
235 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
236 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
237 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
238 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
239 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
241 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
242 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
244 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
245 ===========================
250 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
251 compilation error for this contrib package.
253 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
254 ===========================
259 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
261 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
262 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
263 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
264 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
266 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
267 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
270 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
271 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
272 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
273 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
276 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
278 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
281 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
282 =========================
284 Command-Line Interface
285 ----------------------
289 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
290 for a reply message and full information about the original message
291 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
292 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
294 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
295 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
296 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
297 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
301 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
302 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
304 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
305 tag in your query, for example:
307 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
309 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
310 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
312 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
313 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
315 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
317 Raw show format changes
319 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
320 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
321 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
322 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
323 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
324 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
325 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
326 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
328 Listing configuration items
330 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
336 Changes to tagging interface
338 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
339 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
340 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
341 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
342 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
343 for more information.
345 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
346 may need to update in custom configurations.
348 Reply improvement using the JSON format
350 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
351 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
352 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
353 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
356 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
357 -----------------------------
359 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
360 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
361 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
362 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
363 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
364 contrib/ from now on.
369 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
370 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
372 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
373 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
375 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
376 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
377 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
379 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
380 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
382 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
383 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
384 returning the new database object or directory object.
391 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
392 compatible with go 1.
394 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
395 =========================
397 Command-Line Interface
398 ----------------------
402 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
403 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
404 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
405 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
407 Mail store folder/file ignore
409 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
410 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
411 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
413 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
414 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
416 Unified help and manual pages
418 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
419 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
422 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
424 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
425 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
433 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
434 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
435 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
436 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
438 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
440 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
441 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
443 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
446 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
447 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
448 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
450 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
452 should be changed to:
454 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
456 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
458 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
459 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
461 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
463 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
464 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
465 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
466 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
467 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
468 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
472 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
473 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
474 of Mailing List Archives.
476 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
478 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
479 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
482 Show view archiving key binding changes
484 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
485 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
486 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
487 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
488 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
491 Support text/calendar MIME type
493 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
496 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
498 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
499 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
500 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
501 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
503 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
505 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
506 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
507 messages blue by default in the search view.
511 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
512 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
519 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
522 Python bindings changes
523 -----------------------
525 Python 3.2 compatibility
527 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
529 Added missing unicode conversions
531 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
532 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
533 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
538 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
540 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
541 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
542 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
543 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
544 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
546 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
547 ===========================
552 Fix error handling in python bindings
554 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
555 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
556 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
557 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
559 Quote MML tags in replies
561 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
562 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
563 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
564 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
565 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
566 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
567 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
568 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
570 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
571 =========================
573 Command-Line Interface
574 ----------------------
578 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
579 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
580 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
581 importing new messages into the database.
583 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
585 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
586 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
587 sometimes. This is now fixed.
592 Automatic tag query optimization
594 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
595 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
596 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
598 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
600 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
601 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
602 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
607 Reduction of memory leaks
609 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
610 and fixed in this release.
617 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
618 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
619 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
622 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
624 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
625 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
626 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
629 Improvements in saved search management
631 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
632 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
633 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
635 Hooks for notmuch-hello
637 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
638 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
639 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
641 New face for crypto parts headers
643 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
644 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
645 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
648 Use space as default thousands separator
650 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
651 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
652 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
654 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
657 New function notmuch-show-advance
659 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
660 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
661 be bound to SPC with:
663 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
665 Various performance improvements
670 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
671 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
674 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
675 ===========================
680 Fix crash in python bindings
682 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
683 for some, but not all users.
685 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
686 ===========================
691 Fix `--help` argument
693 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
694 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
695 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
697 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
698 =========================
700 New build and testing features
701 ------------------------------
703 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
704 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
705 prerequisites is improved.
707 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
709 New command-line features
710 -------------------------
712 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
714 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
715 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
718 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
720 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
721 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
722 favour of using stdout.
724 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
726 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
727 limit the number of results shown.
729 Add `notmuch count --output` option
731 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
732 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
735 New emacs UI features
736 ---------------------
738 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
740 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
741 starting with "tag:".
743 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
745 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
746 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
748 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
750 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
752 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
754 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
755 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
760 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
762 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
764 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
765 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
766 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
767 requires a database rebuild:
769 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
770 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
772 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
774 New collection of add-on tools
775 ------------------------------
777 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
778 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
779 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
782 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
784 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
785 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
786 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
788 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
789 ========================
791 New, general features
792 ---------------------
794 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
796 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
797 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
798 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
799 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
800 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
807 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
808 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
810 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
814 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
815 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
816 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
819 Python bindings changes
820 -----------------------
822 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
824 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
825 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
826 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
827 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
828 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
829 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
831 Ruby bindings changes
832 ---------------------
834 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
835 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
836 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
837 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
842 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
844 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
845 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
847 Reply formatting cleanup
848 ------------------------
850 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
851 MIME parts are being suppressed.
853 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
854 ========================
856 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
858 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
859 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
860 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
861 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
864 Improved Build system portability
866 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
867 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
868 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
870 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
872 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
874 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
876 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
877 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
878 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
880 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
881 ========================
883 Vim interface improvements
884 --------------------------
886 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
888 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
889 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
890 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
891 * fix from list reformatting in search view
892 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
894 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
896 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
897 * fix compose temp file name
899 Python Bindings changes
900 -----------------------
902 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
904 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
905 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
907 Build-System improvements
908 -------------------------
910 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
912 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
915 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
916 ==========================
921 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
923 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
924 people running gcc 4.4.5.
926 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
927 =======================
929 New, general features
930 ---------------------
932 Folder-based searching
934 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
935 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
936 storage). The syntax is as follows:
940 For example, one might use things such as:
946 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
947 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
949 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
950 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
951 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
952 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
954 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
955 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
956 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
959 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
960 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
962 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
966 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
967 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
968 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
970 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
972 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
973 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
975 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
976 notmuch will receive these tags.
978 New command-line features
979 -------------------------
981 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
983 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
984 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
986 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
988 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
989 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
990 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
992 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
994 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
995 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
996 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
997 which parts a signature part applies).
999 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1001 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1002 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1003 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1004 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1005 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1008 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1010 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1011 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1012 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1013 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1014 by translating it internally to the new call.
1016 Performance improvements
1017 ------------------------
1019 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1021 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1022 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1023 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1025 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1026 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1028 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1030 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1031 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1032 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1034 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1035 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1036 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1037 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1039 Faster initial indexing
1041 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1042 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1043 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1045 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1047 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1048 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1049 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1050 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1052 New emacs-interface features
1053 ----------------------------
1055 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1057 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1058 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1059 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1060 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1061 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1062 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1064 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1066 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1067 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1068 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1069 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1071 User-selectable From address
1073 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1074 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1075 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1076 will prompt for the from address to use.
1078 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1079 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1080 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1082 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1083 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1084 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1087 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1089 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1090 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1092 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1094 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1096 ----- Original Message -----
1098 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1099 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1100 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1101 citations work much like conventional citations.
1103 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1105 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1106 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1107 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1108 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1109 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1111 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1112 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1114 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1116 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1117 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1118 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1120 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1122 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1123 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1124 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1125 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1126 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1128 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1130 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1133 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1135 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1137 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1139 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1142 Vim interface improvements
1143 --------------------------
1145 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1147 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1148 * Implementing archive in show view
1149 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1150 * Add delete commands
1153 Bindings improvements
1154 ---------------------
1156 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1158 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1159 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1161 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1163 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1167 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1168 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1169 `list(Messages)` works now
1170 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1172 These allow, for example:
1174 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1176 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1178 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1184 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1186 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1189 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1191 New build-system features
1192 -------------------------
1194 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1196 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1197 the configure script from some other directory:
1204 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1206 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1207 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1208 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1209 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1210 manual invocation of configure.
1212 New test-suite feature
1213 ----------------------
1215 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1217 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1218 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1219 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1220 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1221 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1224 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1226 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1227 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1228 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1229 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1230 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1231 are updated to take advantage of this.
1233 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1235 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1236 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1237 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1238 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1244 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1246 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1247 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1248 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1250 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1252 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1254 to:user@elsewhere.com
1256 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1258 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1260 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1262 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1263 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1264 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1267 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1268 from the Received headers in some cases
1270 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1271 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1273 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1275 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1277 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1279 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1280 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1281 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1283 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1284 -------------------------
1286 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1288 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1289 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1290 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1292 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1294 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1295 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1296 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1299 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1301 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1302 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1303 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1304 fixed to avoid this bug.
1306 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1308 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1309 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1311 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1312 ========================
1314 New, general features
1315 ---------------------
1317 Maildir-flag synchronization
1319 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1320 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1329 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1331 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1332 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1333 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1334 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1336 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1337 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1338 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1339 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1342 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1344 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1345 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1346 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1348 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1349 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1351 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1352 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1354 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1355 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1356 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1358 New library features
1359 --------------------
1361 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1363 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1364 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1365 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1366 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1368 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1369 message with the new function:
1371 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1373 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1374 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1375 over all available filenames for a given message.
1377 New command-line features
1378 -------------------------
1380 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1382 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1383 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1384 access to the mail store itself.
1386 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1387 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1388 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1389 name of a script containing:
1391 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1393 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1394 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1400 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1402 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1404 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1406 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1407 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1408 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1409 now produces nothing).
1411 Emacs interface improvements
1412 ----------------------------
1414 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1416 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1418 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1420 Display current thread subject in a header line
1422 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1424 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1426 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1427 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1428 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1429 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1430 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1431 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1432 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1434 Vim interface improvements
1435 --------------------------
1437 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1439 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1440 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1446 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1448 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1449 ========================
1451 New command-line features
1452 -------------------------
1454 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1456 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1457 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1458 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1460 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1461 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1462 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1463 scripts. For example:
1465 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1466 <operations-on> "$file"
1469 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1471 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1472 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1473 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1474 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1475 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1476 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1478 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1480 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1481 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1482 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1483 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1485 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1487 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1488 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1489 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1490 default rather than Bcc.
1492 New library features
1493 --------------------
1495 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1497 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1498 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1503 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1505 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1506 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1507 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1508 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1509 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1510 notmuch customize interface.
1512 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1514 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1515 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1516 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1517 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1519 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1521 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1522 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1523 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1524 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1526 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1528 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1529 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1530 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1531 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1532 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1533 notmuch customize interface.
1535 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1537 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1538 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1539 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1540 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1541 notmuch customize interface.
1543 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1545 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1546 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1547 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1548 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1551 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1553 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1554 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1555 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1558 New build-system features
1559 -------------------------
1561 Various portability fixes have been applied
1563 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1564 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1565 more portable than ever before.
1567 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1569 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1570 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1571 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1573 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1574 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1575 automatically run ldconfig.
1577 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1578 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1579 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1581 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1582 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1583 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1584 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1586 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1588 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1589 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1590 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1591 used in the resulting Makefile.
1593 New test-suite features
1594 -----------------------
1596 New modularization of test suite
1598 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1599 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1600 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1601 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1602 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1603 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1604 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1605 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1607 New testing of emacs interface
1609 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1610 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1611 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1612 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1613 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1614 database via the FCC setting.
1619 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1621 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1622 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1623 persistent error of the form:
1625 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1627 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1628 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1630 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1632 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1633 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1634 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1636 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1638 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1639 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1640 parsing the notmuch results).
1642 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1644 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1647 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1648 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1649 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1654 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1656 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1657 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1658 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1659 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1660 the emacs interface.
1662 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1664 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1665 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1666 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1668 Python-binding fixes
1669 --------------------
1671 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1673 Debian-specific fixes
1674 ---------------------
1676 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1678 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1679 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1680 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1683 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1684 ==========================
1689 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1691 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1692 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1693 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1694 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1696 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1698 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1699 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1700 want notmuch to crash.
1705 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1707 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1708 directory does not exist
1713 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1715 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1716 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1718 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1719 ========================
1721 New command-line features
1722 -------------------------
1724 User-configurable tags for new messages
1726 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1727 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1728 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1729 to specify this value.
1731 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1733 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1734 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1735 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1737 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1739 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1740 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1742 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1744 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1745 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1746 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1747 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1748 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1751 Indication of author names that match a search
1753 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1754 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1755 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1756 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1757 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1758 messages in the thread are listed first.
1760 New: Python bindings
1761 --------------------
1763 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1764 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1765 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1766 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1768 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1769 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1770 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1773 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1774 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1775 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1777 Emacs interface improvements
1778 ----------------------------
1780 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1782 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1783 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1784 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1785 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1786 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1787 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1788 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1789 but without any of the disadvantages).
1791 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1792 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1793 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1796 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1797 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1798 instead running something like:
1800 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1802 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1803 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1804 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1807 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1809 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1810 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1811 tweaked by the user.
1813 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1814 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1815 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1818 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1819 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1820 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1823 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1825 This support currently relies on an external program,
1826 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1827 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1828 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1829 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1830 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1833 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1834 notmuch) is available via:
1836 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1838 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1839 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1840 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1842 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1844 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1845 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1846 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1847 making this automatic in a future release.
1849 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1851 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1852 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1853 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1854 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1855 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1856 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1859 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1861 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1862 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1863 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1865 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1867 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1868 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1869 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1871 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1872 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1873 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1874 other representation.
1876 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1877 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1880 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1882 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1883 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1884 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1886 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1887 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1888 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1890 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1892 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1893 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1894 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1895 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1896 to display the search result.
1898 More flexible handling of header visibility
1900 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1901 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1902 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1903 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1904 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1905 with the 'h' keybinding.
1907 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1908 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1909 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1911 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1913 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1915 Customizable formatting of search results
1917 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1918 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1919 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1921 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1923 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1925 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1930 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1932 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1933 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1934 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1935 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1941 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1943 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1944 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1946 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1948 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1949 accept are now all accepted.
1954 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1956 Better display of output from failed tests
1958 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1959 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1961 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1962 ========================
1964 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1965 detailed release notes this time!
1967 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1968 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1970 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1971 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1972 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1973 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1980 Better guessing of From: header
1982 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1983 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1984 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1985 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1986 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1989 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1991 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1992 guaranteed to match all messages.
1994 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1996 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1997 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1998 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1999 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2000 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2003 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2006 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2007 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2008 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2009 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2014 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2016 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2017 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2018 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2019 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2021 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2023 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2025 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2026 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2027 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2029 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2031 Previously, the user might see:
2033 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2037 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2039 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2040 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2041 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2042 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2044 Emacs client features
2045 ---------------------
2047 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2049 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2050 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2051 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2052 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2053 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2055 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2058 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2059 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2060 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2061 search with the '*' binding.
2063 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2065 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2066 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2069 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2071 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2072 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2073 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2075 Build-system features
2076 ---------------------
2078 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2080 Add support to configure for many standard options
2082 We include actual support for:
2084 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2086 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2088 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2089 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2091 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2092 separate "make install-emacs"
2094 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2096 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2097 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2098 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2100 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2103 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2104 ========================
2106 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2108 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2109 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2111 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2112 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2113 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2114 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2115 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2116 tags from messages in a thread.
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