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 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
40 Bash command-line completion
42 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
43 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
44 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
45 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
46 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
47 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
48 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
49 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
50 bash-completion package.
55 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
56 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
61 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
63 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
64 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
65 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
66 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
67 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
68 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
69 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
70 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
72 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
74 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
75 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
76 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
78 Better handling of errors in search buffers
80 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
81 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
85 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
86 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
87 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
91 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
92 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
93 in question was now removed from this release.
95 Key bindings for next/previous thread
97 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
98 previous thread in the search results.
100 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
101 ===========================
106 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
108 Internal test framework changes
109 -------------------------------
111 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
114 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
115 ===========================
117 Internal test framework changes
118 -------------------------------
120 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
121 build failures in non-interactive environments.
123 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
124 =========================
129 Date range search support
131 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
132 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
133 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
134 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
135 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
138 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
140 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
141 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
142 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
143 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
144 but may be removed in a future release.
146 Command-Line Interface
147 ----------------------
149 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
151 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
152 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
154 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
156 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
157 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
158 officially deprecated.
160 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
162 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
163 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
164 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
166 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
168 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
169 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
172 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
173 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
176 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
178 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
179 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
180 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
182 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
184 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
185 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
186 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
188 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
190 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
191 output separated by null characters rather than newline
192 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
193 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
198 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
200 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
201 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
202 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
203 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
205 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
207 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
208 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
209 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
210 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
211 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
212 the behavior of this, see
213 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
214 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
216 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
217 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
218 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
220 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
222 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
223 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
226 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
228 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
229 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
230 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
231 simply displayed in place of the message.
233 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
235 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
236 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
238 Improved text/calendar content handling
240 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
241 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
242 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
243 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
245 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
247 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
248 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
249 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
250 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
252 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
254 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
255 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
256 for HTML email containing images.
258 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
260 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
262 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
264 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
267 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
269 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
270 the point where it was.
272 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
274 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
275 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
276 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
277 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
278 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
280 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
282 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
283 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
284 thread instead of the message id.
286 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
287 -----------------------------
289 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
290 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
291 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
292 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
293 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
294 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
295 further details and installation.
300 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
302 Internal test framework changes
303 -------------------------------
305 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
307 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
308 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
309 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
310 can result in buggy behavior.
312 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
313 =========================
318 Maildir tag synchronization
320 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
321 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
322 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
323 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
324 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
325 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
328 Command-Line Interface
329 ----------------------
331 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
332 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
333 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
334 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
335 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
341 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
343 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
345 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
346 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
347 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
349 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
351 It is now possible to embed newlines in
352 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
355 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
357 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
358 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
359 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
360 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
361 inside the result or message.
363 Search now uses the JSON format internally
365 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
366 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
368 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
369 user-specified formatting
371 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
372 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
373 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
374 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
375 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
377 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
378 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
380 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
381 ===========================
386 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
387 compilation error for this contrib package.
389 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
390 ===========================
395 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
397 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
398 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
399 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
400 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
402 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
403 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
406 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
407 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
408 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
409 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
412 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
414 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
417 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
418 =========================
420 Command-Line Interface
421 ----------------------
425 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
426 for a reply message and full information about the original message
427 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
428 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
430 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
431 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
432 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
433 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
437 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
438 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
440 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
441 tag in your query, for example:
443 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
445 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
446 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
448 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
449 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
451 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
453 Raw show format changes
455 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
456 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
457 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
458 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
459 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
460 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
461 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
462 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
464 Listing configuration items
466 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
472 Changes to tagging interface
474 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
475 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
476 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
477 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
478 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
479 for more information.
481 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
482 may need to update in custom configurations.
484 Reply improvement using the JSON format
486 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
487 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
488 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
489 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
492 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
493 -----------------------------
495 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
496 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
497 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
498 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
499 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
500 contrib/ from now on.
505 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
506 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
508 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
509 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
511 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
512 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
513 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
515 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
516 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
518 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
519 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
520 returning the new database object or directory object.
527 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
528 compatible with go 1.
530 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
531 =========================
533 Command-Line Interface
534 ----------------------
538 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
539 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
540 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
541 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
543 Mail store folder/file ignore
545 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
546 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
547 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
549 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
550 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
552 Unified help and manual pages
554 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
555 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
558 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
560 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
561 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
569 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
570 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
571 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
572 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
574 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
576 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
577 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
579 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
582 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
583 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
584 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
586 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
588 should be changed to:
590 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
592 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
594 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
595 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
597 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
599 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
600 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
601 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
602 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
603 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
604 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
608 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
609 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
610 of Mailing List Archives.
612 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
614 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
615 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
618 Show view archiving key binding changes
620 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
621 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
622 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
623 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
624 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
627 Support text/calendar MIME type
629 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
632 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
634 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
635 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
636 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
637 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
639 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
641 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
642 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
643 messages blue by default in the search view.
647 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
648 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
655 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
658 Python bindings changes
659 -----------------------
661 Python 3.2 compatibility
663 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
665 Added missing unicode conversions
667 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
668 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
669 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
674 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
676 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
677 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
678 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
679 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
680 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
682 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
683 ===========================
688 Fix error handling in python bindings
690 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
691 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
692 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
693 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
695 Quote MML tags in replies
697 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
698 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
699 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
700 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
701 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
702 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
703 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
704 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
706 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
707 =========================
709 Command-Line Interface
710 ----------------------
714 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
715 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
716 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
717 importing new messages into the database.
719 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
721 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
722 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
723 sometimes. This is now fixed.
728 Automatic tag query optimization
730 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
731 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
732 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
734 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
736 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
737 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
738 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
743 Reduction of memory leaks
745 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
746 and fixed in this release.
753 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
754 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
755 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
758 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
760 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
761 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
762 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
765 Improvements in saved search management
767 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
768 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
769 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
771 Hooks for notmuch-hello
773 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
774 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
775 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
777 New face for crypto parts headers
779 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
780 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
781 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
784 Use space as default thousands separator
786 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
787 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
788 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
790 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
793 New function notmuch-show-advance
795 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
796 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
797 be bound to SPC with:
799 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
801 Various performance improvements
806 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
807 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
810 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
811 ===========================
816 Fix crash in python bindings
818 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
819 for some, but not all users.
821 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
822 ===========================
827 Fix `--help` argument
829 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
830 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
831 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
833 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
834 =========================
836 New build and testing features
837 ------------------------------
839 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
840 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
841 prerequisites is improved.
843 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
845 New command-line features
846 -------------------------
848 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
850 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
851 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
854 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
856 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
857 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
858 favour of using stdout.
860 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
862 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
863 limit the number of results shown.
865 Add `notmuch count --output` option
867 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
868 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
871 New emacs UI features
872 ---------------------
874 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
876 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
877 starting with "tag:".
879 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
881 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
882 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
884 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
886 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
888 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
890 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
891 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
896 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
898 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
900 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
901 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
902 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
903 requires a database rebuild:
905 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
906 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
908 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
910 New collection of add-on tools
911 ------------------------------
913 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
914 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
915 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
918 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
920 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
921 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
922 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
924 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
925 ========================
927 New, general features
928 ---------------------
930 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
932 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
933 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
934 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
935 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
936 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
943 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
944 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
946 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
950 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
951 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
952 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
955 Python bindings changes
956 -----------------------
958 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
960 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
961 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
962 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
963 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
964 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
965 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
967 Ruby bindings changes
968 ---------------------
970 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
971 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
972 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
973 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
978 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
980 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
981 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
983 Reply formatting cleanup
984 ------------------------
986 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
987 MIME parts are being suppressed.
989 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
990 ========================
992 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
994 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
995 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
996 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
997 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1000 Improved Build system portability
1002 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1003 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1004 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1006 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1008 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1010 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1012 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1013 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1014 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1016 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1017 ========================
1019 Vim interface improvements
1020 --------------------------
1022 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1024 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1025 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1026 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1027 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1028 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1030 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1032 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1033 * fix compose temp file name
1035 Python Bindings changes
1036 -----------------------
1038 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1040 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1041 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1043 Build-System improvements
1044 -------------------------
1046 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1048 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1051 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1052 ==========================
1057 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1059 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1060 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1062 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1063 =======================
1065 New, general features
1066 ---------------------
1068 Folder-based searching
1070 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1071 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1072 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1076 For example, one might use things such as:
1082 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1083 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1085 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1086 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1087 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1088 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1090 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1091 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1092 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1095 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1096 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1098 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1100 Support for PGP/MIME
1102 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1103 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1104 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1106 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1108 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1109 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1111 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1112 notmuch will receive these tags.
1114 New command-line features
1115 -------------------------
1117 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1119 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1120 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1122 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1124 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1125 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1126 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1128 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1130 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1131 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1132 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1133 which parts a signature part applies).
1135 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1137 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1138 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1139 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1140 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1141 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1144 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1146 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1147 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1148 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1149 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1150 by translating it internally to the new call.
1152 Performance improvements
1153 ------------------------
1155 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1157 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1158 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1159 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1161 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1162 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1164 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1166 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1167 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1168 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1170 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1171 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1172 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1173 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1175 Faster initial indexing
1177 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1178 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1179 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1181 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1183 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1184 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1185 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1186 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1188 New emacs-interface features
1189 ----------------------------
1191 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1193 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1194 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1195 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1196 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1197 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1198 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1200 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1202 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1203 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1204 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1205 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1207 User-selectable From address
1209 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1210 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1211 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1212 will prompt for the from address to use.
1214 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1215 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1216 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1218 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1219 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1220 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1223 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1225 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1226 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1228 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1230 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1232 ----- Original Message -----
1234 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1235 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1236 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1237 citations work much like conventional citations.
1239 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1241 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1242 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1243 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1244 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1245 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1247 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1248 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1250 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1252 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1253 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1254 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1256 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1258 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1259 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1260 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1261 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1262 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1264 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1266 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1269 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1271 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1273 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1275 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1278 Vim interface improvements
1279 --------------------------
1281 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1283 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1284 * Implementing archive in show view
1285 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1286 * Add delete commands
1289 Bindings improvements
1290 ---------------------
1292 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1294 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1295 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1297 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1299 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1303 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1304 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1305 `list(Messages)` works now
1306 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1308 These allow, for example:
1310 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1312 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1314 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1320 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1322 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1325 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1327 New build-system features
1328 -------------------------
1330 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1332 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1333 the configure script from some other directory:
1340 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1342 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1343 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1344 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1345 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1346 manual invocation of configure.
1348 New test-suite feature
1349 ----------------------
1351 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1353 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1354 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1355 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1356 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1357 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1360 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1362 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1363 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1364 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1365 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1366 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1367 are updated to take advantage of this.
1369 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1371 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1372 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1373 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1374 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1380 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1382 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1383 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1384 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1386 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1388 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1390 to:user@elsewhere.com
1392 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1394 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1396 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1398 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1399 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1400 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1403 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1404 from the Received headers in some cases
1406 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1407 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1409 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1411 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1413 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1415 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1416 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1417 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1419 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1420 -------------------------
1422 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1424 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1425 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1426 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1428 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1430 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1431 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1432 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1435 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1437 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1438 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1439 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1440 fixed to avoid this bug.
1442 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1444 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1445 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1447 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1448 ========================
1450 New, general features
1451 ---------------------
1453 Maildir-flag synchronization
1455 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1456 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1465 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1467 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1468 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1469 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1470 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1472 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1473 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1474 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1475 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1478 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1480 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1481 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1482 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1484 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1485 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1487 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1488 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1490 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1491 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1492 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1494 New library features
1495 --------------------
1497 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1499 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1500 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1501 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1502 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1504 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1505 message with the new function:
1507 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1509 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1510 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1511 over all available filenames for a given message.
1513 New command-line features
1514 -------------------------
1516 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1518 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1519 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1520 access to the mail store itself.
1522 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1523 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1524 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1525 name of a script containing:
1527 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1529 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1530 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1536 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1538 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1540 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1542 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1543 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1544 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1545 now produces nothing).
1547 Emacs interface improvements
1548 ----------------------------
1550 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1552 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1554 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1556 Display current thread subject in a header line
1558 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1560 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1562 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1563 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1564 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1565 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1566 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1567 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1568 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1570 Vim interface improvements
1571 --------------------------
1573 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1575 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1576 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1582 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1584 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1585 ========================
1587 New command-line features
1588 -------------------------
1590 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1592 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1593 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1594 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1596 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1597 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1598 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1599 scripts. For example:
1601 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1602 <operations-on> "$file"
1605 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1607 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1608 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1609 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1610 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1611 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1612 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1614 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1616 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1617 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1618 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1619 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1621 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1623 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1624 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1625 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1626 default rather than Bcc.
1628 New library features
1629 --------------------
1631 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1633 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1634 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1639 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1641 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1642 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1643 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1644 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1645 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1646 notmuch customize interface.
1648 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1650 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1651 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1652 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1653 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1655 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1657 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1658 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1659 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1660 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1662 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1664 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1665 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1666 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1667 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1668 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1669 notmuch customize interface.
1671 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1673 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1674 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1675 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1676 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1677 notmuch customize interface.
1679 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1681 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1682 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1683 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1684 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1687 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1689 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1690 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1691 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1694 New build-system features
1695 -------------------------
1697 Various portability fixes have been applied
1699 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1700 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1701 more portable than ever before.
1703 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1705 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1706 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1707 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1709 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1710 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1711 automatically run ldconfig.
1713 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1714 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1715 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1717 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1718 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1719 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1720 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1722 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1724 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1725 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1726 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1727 used in the resulting Makefile.
1729 New test-suite features
1730 -----------------------
1732 New modularization of test suite
1734 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1735 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1736 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1737 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1738 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1739 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1740 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1741 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1743 New testing of emacs interface
1745 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1746 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1747 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1748 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1749 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1750 database via the FCC setting.
1755 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1757 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1758 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1759 persistent error of the form:
1761 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1763 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1764 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1766 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1768 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1769 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1770 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1772 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1774 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1775 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1776 parsing the notmuch results).
1778 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1780 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1783 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1784 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1785 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1790 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1792 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1793 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1794 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1795 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1796 the emacs interface.
1798 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1800 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1801 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1802 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1804 Python-binding fixes
1805 --------------------
1807 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1809 Debian-specific fixes
1810 ---------------------
1812 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1814 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1815 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1816 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1819 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1820 ==========================
1825 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1827 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1828 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1829 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1830 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1832 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1834 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1835 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1836 want notmuch to crash.
1841 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1843 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1844 directory does not exist
1849 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1851 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1852 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1854 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1855 ========================
1857 New command-line features
1858 -------------------------
1860 User-configurable tags for new messages
1862 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1863 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1864 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1865 to specify this value.
1867 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1869 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1870 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1871 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1873 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1875 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1876 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1878 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1880 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1881 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1882 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1883 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1884 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1887 Indication of author names that match a search
1889 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1890 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1891 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1892 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1893 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1894 messages in the thread are listed first.
1896 New: Python bindings
1897 --------------------
1899 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1900 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1901 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1902 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1904 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1905 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1906 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1909 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1910 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1911 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1913 Emacs interface improvements
1914 ----------------------------
1916 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1918 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1919 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1920 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1921 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1922 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1923 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1924 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1925 but without any of the disadvantages).
1927 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1928 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1929 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1932 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1933 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1934 instead running something like:
1936 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1938 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1939 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1940 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1943 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1945 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1946 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1947 tweaked by the user.
1949 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1950 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1951 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1954 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1955 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1956 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1959 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1961 This support currently relies on an external program,
1962 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1963 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1964 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1965 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1966 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1969 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1970 notmuch) is available via:
1972 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1974 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1975 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1976 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1978 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1980 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1981 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1982 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1983 making this automatic in a future release.
1985 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1987 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1988 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1989 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1990 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1991 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1992 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1995 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1997 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1998 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1999 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2001 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2003 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2004 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2005 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2007 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2008 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2009 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2010 other representation.
2012 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2013 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2016 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2018 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2019 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2020 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2022 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2023 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2024 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2026 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2028 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2029 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2030 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2031 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2032 to display the search result.
2034 More flexible handling of header visibility
2036 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2037 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2038 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2039 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2040 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2041 with the 'h' keybinding.
2043 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2044 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2045 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2047 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2049 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2051 Customizable formatting of search results
2053 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2054 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2055 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2057 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2059 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2061 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2066 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2068 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2069 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2070 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2071 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2077 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2079 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2080 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2082 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2084 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2085 accept are now all accepted.
2090 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2092 Better display of output from failed tests
2094 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2095 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2097 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2098 ========================
2100 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2101 detailed release notes this time!
2103 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2104 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2106 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2107 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2108 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2109 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2116 Better guessing of From: header
2118 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2119 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2120 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2121 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2122 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2125 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2127 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2128 guaranteed to match all messages.
2130 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2132 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2133 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2134 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2135 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2136 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2139 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2142 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2143 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2144 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2145 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2150 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2152 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2153 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2154 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2155 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2157 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2159 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2161 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2162 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2163 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2165 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2167 Previously, the user might see:
2169 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2173 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2175 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2176 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2177 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2178 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2180 Emacs client features
2181 ---------------------
2183 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2185 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2186 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2187 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2188 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2189 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2191 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2194 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2195 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2196 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2197 search with the '*' binding.
2199 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2201 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2202 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2205 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2207 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2208 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2209 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2211 Build-system features
2212 ---------------------
2214 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2216 Add support to configure for many standard options
2218 We include actual support for:
2220 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2222 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2224 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2225 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2227 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2228 separate "make install-emacs"
2230 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2232 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2233 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2234 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2236 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2239 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2240 ========================
2242 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2244 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2245 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2247 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2248 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2249 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2250 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2251 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2252 tags from messages in a thread.
2259 indent-tabs-mode: nil