1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Top level option to redirect writes to stderr
40 With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to
41 the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout.
43 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
45 Bash command-line completion
47 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
48 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
49 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
50 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
51 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
52 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
53 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
54 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
55 bash-completion package.
60 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
61 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
62 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
63 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
64 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
71 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
72 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
73 in question was now removed from this release.
75 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
76 ===========================
81 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
83 Internal test framework changes
84 -------------------------------
86 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
89 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
90 ===========================
92 Internal test framework changes
93 -------------------------------
95 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
96 build failures in non-interactive environments.
98 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
99 =========================
104 Date range search support
106 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
107 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
108 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
109 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
110 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
113 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
115 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
116 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
117 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
118 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
119 but may be removed in a future release.
121 Command-Line Interface
122 ----------------------
124 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
126 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
127 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
129 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
131 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
132 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
133 officially deprecated.
135 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
137 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
138 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
139 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
141 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
143 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
144 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
147 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
148 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
151 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
153 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
154 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
155 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
157 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
159 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
160 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
161 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
163 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
165 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
166 output separated by null characters rather than newline
167 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
168 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
173 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
175 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
176 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
177 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
178 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
180 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
182 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
183 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
184 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
185 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
186 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
187 the behavior of this, see
188 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
189 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
191 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
192 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
193 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
195 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
197 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
198 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
201 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
203 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
204 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
205 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
206 simply displayed in place of the message.
208 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
210 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
211 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
213 Improved text/calendar content handling
215 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
216 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
217 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
218 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
220 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
222 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
223 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
224 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
225 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
227 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
229 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
230 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
231 for HTML email containing images.
233 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
235 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
237 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
239 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
242 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
244 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
245 the point where it was.
247 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
249 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
250 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
251 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
252 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
253 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
255 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
257 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
258 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
259 thread instead of the message id.
261 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
262 -----------------------------
264 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
265 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
266 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
267 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
268 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
269 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
270 further details and installation.
275 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
277 Internal test framework changes
278 -------------------------------
280 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
282 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
283 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
284 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
285 can result in buggy behavior.
287 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
288 =========================
293 Maildir tag synchronization
295 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
296 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
297 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
298 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
299 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
300 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
303 Command-Line Interface
304 ----------------------
306 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
307 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
308 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
309 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
310 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
316 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
318 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
320 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
321 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
322 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
324 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
326 It is now possible to embed newlines in
327 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
330 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
332 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
333 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
334 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
335 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
336 inside the result or message.
338 Search now uses the JSON format internally
340 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
341 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
343 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
344 user-specified formatting
346 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
347 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
348 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
349 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
350 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
352 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
353 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
355 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
356 ===========================
361 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
362 compilation error for this contrib package.
364 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
365 ===========================
370 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
372 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
373 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
374 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
375 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
377 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
378 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
381 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
382 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
383 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
384 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
387 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
389 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
392 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
393 =========================
395 Command-Line Interface
396 ----------------------
400 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
401 for a reply message and full information about the original message
402 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
403 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
405 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
406 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
407 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
408 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
412 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
413 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
415 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
416 tag in your query, for example:
418 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
420 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
421 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
423 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
424 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
426 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
428 Raw show format changes
430 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
431 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
432 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
433 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
434 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
435 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
436 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
437 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
439 Listing configuration items
441 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
447 Changes to tagging interface
449 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
450 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
451 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
452 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
453 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
454 for more information.
456 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
457 may need to update in custom configurations.
459 Reply improvement using the JSON format
461 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
462 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
463 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
464 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
467 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
468 -----------------------------
470 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
471 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
472 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
473 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
474 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
475 contrib/ from now on.
480 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
481 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
483 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
484 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
486 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
487 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
488 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
490 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
491 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
493 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
494 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
495 returning the new database object or directory object.
502 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
503 compatible with go 1.
505 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
506 =========================
508 Command-Line Interface
509 ----------------------
513 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
514 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
515 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
516 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
518 Mail store folder/file ignore
520 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
521 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
522 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
524 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
525 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
527 Unified help and manual pages
529 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
530 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
533 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
535 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
536 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
544 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
545 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
546 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
547 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
549 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
551 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
552 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
554 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
557 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
558 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
559 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
561 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
563 should be changed to:
565 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
567 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
569 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
570 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
572 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
574 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
575 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
576 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
577 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
578 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
579 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
583 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
584 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
585 of Mailing List Archives.
587 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
589 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
590 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
593 Show view archiving key binding changes
595 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
596 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
597 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
598 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
599 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
602 Support text/calendar MIME type
604 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
607 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
609 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
610 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
611 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
612 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
614 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
616 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
617 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
618 messages blue by default in the search view.
622 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
623 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
630 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
633 Python bindings changes
634 -----------------------
636 Python 3.2 compatibility
638 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
640 Added missing unicode conversions
642 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
643 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
644 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
649 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
651 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
652 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
653 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
654 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
655 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
657 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
658 ===========================
663 Fix error handling in python bindings
665 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
666 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
667 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
668 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
670 Quote MML tags in replies
672 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
673 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
674 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
675 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
676 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
677 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
678 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
679 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
681 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
682 =========================
684 Command-Line Interface
685 ----------------------
689 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
690 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
691 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
692 importing new messages into the database.
694 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
696 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
697 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
698 sometimes. This is now fixed.
703 Automatic tag query optimization
705 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
706 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
707 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
709 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
711 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
712 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
713 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
718 Reduction of memory leaks
720 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
721 and fixed in this release.
728 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
729 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
730 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
733 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
735 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
736 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
737 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
740 Improvements in saved search management
742 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
743 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
744 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
746 Hooks for notmuch-hello
748 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
749 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
750 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
752 New face for crypto parts headers
754 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
755 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
756 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
759 Use space as default thousands separator
761 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
762 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
763 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
765 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
768 New function notmuch-show-advance
770 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
771 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
772 be bound to SPC with:
774 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
776 Various performance improvements
781 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
782 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
785 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
786 ===========================
791 Fix crash in python bindings
793 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
794 for some, but not all users.
796 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
797 ===========================
802 Fix `--help` argument
804 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
805 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
806 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
808 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
809 =========================
811 New build and testing features
812 ------------------------------
814 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
815 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
816 prerequisites is improved.
818 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
820 New command-line features
821 -------------------------
823 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
825 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
826 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
829 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
831 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
832 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
833 favour of using stdout.
835 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
837 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
838 limit the number of results shown.
840 Add `notmuch count --output` option
842 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
843 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
846 New emacs UI features
847 ---------------------
849 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
851 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
852 starting with "tag:".
854 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
856 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
857 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
859 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
861 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
863 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
865 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
866 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
871 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
873 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
875 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
876 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
877 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
878 requires a database rebuild:
880 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
881 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
883 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
885 New collection of add-on tools
886 ------------------------------
888 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
889 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
890 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
893 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
895 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
896 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
897 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
899 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
900 ========================
902 New, general features
903 ---------------------
905 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
907 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
908 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
909 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
910 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
911 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
918 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
919 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
921 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
925 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
926 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
927 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
930 Python bindings changes
931 -----------------------
933 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
935 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
936 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
937 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
938 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
939 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
940 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
942 Ruby bindings changes
943 ---------------------
945 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
946 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
947 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
948 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
953 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
955 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
956 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
958 Reply formatting cleanup
959 ------------------------
961 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
962 MIME parts are being suppressed.
964 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
965 ========================
967 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
969 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
970 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
971 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
972 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
975 Improved Build system portability
977 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
978 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
979 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
981 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
983 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
985 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
987 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
988 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
989 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
991 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
992 ========================
994 Vim interface improvements
995 --------------------------
997 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
999 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1000 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1001 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1002 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1003 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1005 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1007 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1008 * fix compose temp file name
1010 Python Bindings changes
1011 -----------------------
1013 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1015 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1016 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1018 Build-System improvements
1019 -------------------------
1021 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1023 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1026 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1027 ==========================
1032 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1034 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1035 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1037 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1038 =======================
1040 New, general features
1041 ---------------------
1043 Folder-based searching
1045 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1046 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1047 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1051 For example, one might use things such as:
1057 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1058 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1060 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1061 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1062 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1063 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1065 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1066 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1067 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1070 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1071 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1073 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1075 Support for PGP/MIME
1077 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1078 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1079 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1081 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1083 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1084 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1086 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1087 notmuch will receive these tags.
1089 New command-line features
1090 -------------------------
1092 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1094 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1095 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1097 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1099 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1100 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1101 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1103 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1105 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1106 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1107 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1108 which parts a signature part applies).
1110 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1112 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1113 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1114 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1115 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1116 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1119 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1121 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1122 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1123 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1124 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1125 by translating it internally to the new call.
1127 Performance improvements
1128 ------------------------
1130 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1132 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1133 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1134 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1136 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1137 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1139 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1141 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1142 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1143 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1145 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1146 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1147 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1148 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1150 Faster initial indexing
1152 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1153 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1154 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1156 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1158 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1159 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1160 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1161 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1163 New emacs-interface features
1164 ----------------------------
1166 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1168 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1169 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1170 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1171 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1172 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1173 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1175 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1177 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1178 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1179 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1180 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1182 User-selectable From address
1184 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1185 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1186 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1187 will prompt for the from address to use.
1189 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1190 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1191 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1193 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1194 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1195 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1198 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1200 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1201 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1203 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1205 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1207 ----- Original Message -----
1209 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1210 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1211 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1212 citations work much like conventional citations.
1214 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1216 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1217 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1218 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1219 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1220 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1222 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1223 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1225 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1227 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1228 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1229 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1231 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1233 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1234 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1235 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1236 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1237 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1239 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1241 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1244 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1246 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1248 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1250 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1253 Vim interface improvements
1254 --------------------------
1256 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1258 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1259 * Implementing archive in show view
1260 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1261 * Add delete commands
1264 Bindings improvements
1265 ---------------------
1267 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1269 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1270 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1272 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1274 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1278 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1279 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1280 `list(Messages)` works now
1281 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1283 These allow, for example:
1285 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1287 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1289 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1295 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1297 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1300 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1302 New build-system features
1303 -------------------------
1305 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1307 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1308 the configure script from some other directory:
1315 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1317 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1318 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1319 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1320 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1321 manual invocation of configure.
1323 New test-suite feature
1324 ----------------------
1326 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1328 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1329 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1330 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1331 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1332 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1335 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1337 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1338 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1339 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1340 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1341 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1342 are updated to take advantage of this.
1344 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1346 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1347 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1348 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1349 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1355 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1357 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1358 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1359 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1361 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1363 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1365 to:user@elsewhere.com
1367 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1369 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1371 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1373 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1374 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1375 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1378 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1379 from the Received headers in some cases
1381 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1382 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1384 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1386 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1388 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1390 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1391 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1392 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1394 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1395 -------------------------
1397 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1399 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1400 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1401 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1403 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1405 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1406 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1407 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1410 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1412 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1413 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1414 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1415 fixed to avoid this bug.
1417 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1419 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1420 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1422 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1423 ========================
1425 New, general features
1426 ---------------------
1428 Maildir-flag synchronization
1430 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1431 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1440 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1442 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1443 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1444 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1445 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1447 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1448 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1449 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1450 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1453 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1455 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1456 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1457 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1459 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1460 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1462 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1463 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1465 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1466 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1467 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1469 New library features
1470 --------------------
1472 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1474 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1475 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1476 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1477 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1479 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1480 message with the new function:
1482 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1484 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1485 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1486 over all available filenames for a given message.
1488 New command-line features
1489 -------------------------
1491 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1493 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1494 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1495 access to the mail store itself.
1497 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1498 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1499 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1500 name of a script containing:
1502 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1504 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1505 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1511 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1513 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1515 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1517 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1518 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1519 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1520 now produces nothing).
1522 Emacs interface improvements
1523 ----------------------------
1525 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1527 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1529 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1531 Display current thread subject in a header line
1533 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1535 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1537 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1538 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1539 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1540 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1541 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1542 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1543 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1545 Vim interface improvements
1546 --------------------------
1548 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1550 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1551 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1557 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1559 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1560 ========================
1562 New command-line features
1563 -------------------------
1565 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1567 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1568 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1569 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1571 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1572 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1573 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1574 scripts. For example:
1576 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1577 <operations-on> "$file"
1580 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1582 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1583 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1584 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1585 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1586 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1587 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1589 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1591 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1592 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1593 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1594 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1596 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1598 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1599 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1600 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1601 default rather than Bcc.
1603 New library features
1604 --------------------
1606 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1608 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1609 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1614 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1616 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1617 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1618 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1619 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1620 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1621 notmuch customize interface.
1623 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1625 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1626 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1627 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1628 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1630 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1632 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1633 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1634 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1635 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1637 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1639 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1640 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1641 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1642 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1643 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1644 notmuch customize interface.
1646 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1648 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1649 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1650 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1651 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1652 notmuch customize interface.
1654 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1656 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1657 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1658 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1659 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1662 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1664 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1665 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1666 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1669 New build-system features
1670 -------------------------
1672 Various portability fixes have been applied
1674 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1675 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1676 more portable than ever before.
1678 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1680 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1681 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1682 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1684 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1685 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1686 automatically run ldconfig.
1688 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1689 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1690 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1692 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1693 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1694 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1695 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1697 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1699 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1700 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1701 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1702 used in the resulting Makefile.
1704 New test-suite features
1705 -----------------------
1707 New modularization of test suite
1709 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1710 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1711 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1712 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1713 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1714 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1715 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1716 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1718 New testing of emacs interface
1720 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1721 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1722 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1723 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1724 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1725 database via the FCC setting.
1730 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1732 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1733 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1734 persistent error of the form:
1736 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1738 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1739 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1741 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1743 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1744 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1745 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1747 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1749 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1750 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1751 parsing the notmuch results).
1753 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1755 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1758 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1759 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1760 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1765 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1767 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1768 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1769 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1770 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1771 the emacs interface.
1773 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1775 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1776 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1777 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1779 Python-binding fixes
1780 --------------------
1782 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1784 Debian-specific fixes
1785 ---------------------
1787 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1789 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1790 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1791 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1794 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1795 ==========================
1800 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1802 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1803 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1804 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1805 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1807 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1809 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1810 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1811 want notmuch to crash.
1816 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1818 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1819 directory does not exist
1824 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1826 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1827 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1829 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1830 ========================
1832 New command-line features
1833 -------------------------
1835 User-configurable tags for new messages
1837 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1838 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1839 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1840 to specify this value.
1842 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1844 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1845 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1846 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1848 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1850 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1851 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1853 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1855 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1856 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1857 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1858 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1859 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1862 Indication of author names that match a search
1864 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1865 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1866 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1867 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1868 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1869 messages in the thread are listed first.
1871 New: Python bindings
1872 --------------------
1874 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1875 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1876 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1877 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1879 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1880 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1881 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1884 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1885 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1886 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1888 Emacs interface improvements
1889 ----------------------------
1891 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1893 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1894 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1895 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1896 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1897 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1898 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1899 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1900 but without any of the disadvantages).
1902 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1903 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1904 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1907 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1908 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1909 instead running something like:
1911 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1913 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1914 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1915 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1918 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1920 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1921 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1922 tweaked by the user.
1924 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1925 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1926 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1929 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1930 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1931 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1934 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1936 This support currently relies on an external program,
1937 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1938 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1939 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1940 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1941 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1944 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1945 notmuch) is available via:
1947 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1949 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1950 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1951 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1953 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1955 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1956 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1957 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1958 making this automatic in a future release.
1960 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1962 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1963 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1964 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1965 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1966 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1967 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1970 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1972 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1973 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1974 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1976 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1978 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1979 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1980 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1982 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1983 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1984 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1985 other representation.
1987 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1988 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1991 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1993 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1994 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1995 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1997 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1998 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1999 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2001 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2003 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2004 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2005 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2006 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2007 to display the search result.
2009 More flexible handling of header visibility
2011 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2012 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2013 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2014 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2015 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2016 with the 'h' keybinding.
2018 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2019 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2020 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2022 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2024 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2026 Customizable formatting of search results
2028 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2029 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2030 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2032 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2034 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2036 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2041 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2043 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2044 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2045 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2046 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2052 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2054 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2055 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2057 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2059 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2060 accept are now all accepted.
2065 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2067 Better display of output from failed tests
2069 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2070 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2072 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2073 ========================
2075 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2076 detailed release notes this time!
2078 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2079 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2081 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2082 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2083 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2084 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2091 Better guessing of From: header
2093 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2094 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2095 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2096 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2097 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2100 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2102 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2103 guaranteed to match all messages.
2105 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2107 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2108 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2109 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2110 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2111 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2114 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2117 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2118 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2119 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2120 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2125 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2127 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2128 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2129 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2130 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2132 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2134 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2136 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2137 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2138 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2140 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2142 Previously, the user might see:
2144 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2148 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2150 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2151 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2152 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2153 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2155 Emacs client features
2156 ---------------------
2158 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2160 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2161 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2162 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2163 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2164 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2166 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2169 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2170 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2171 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2172 search with the '*' binding.
2174 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2176 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2177 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2180 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2182 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2183 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2184 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2186 Build-system features
2187 ---------------------
2189 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2191 Add support to configure for many standard options
2193 We include actual support for:
2195 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2197 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2199 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2200 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2202 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2203 separate "make install-emacs"
2205 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2207 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2208 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2209 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2211 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2214 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2215 ========================
2217 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2219 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2220 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2222 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2223 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2224 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2225 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2226 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2227 tags from messages in a thread.
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