1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
9 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
10 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
11 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
12 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
13 but may be removed in a future release.
15 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
17 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
18 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
19 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
24 Date range search support
26 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
27 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
28 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
29 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
30 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
33 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
34 =========================
39 Maildir tag synchronization
41 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
42 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
43 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
44 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
45 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
46 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
49 Command-Line Interface
50 ----------------------
52 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
53 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
54 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
55 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
56 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
62 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
64 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
66 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
67 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
68 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
70 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
72 It is now possible to embed newlines in
73 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
76 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
78 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
79 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
80 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
81 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
82 inside the result or message.
84 Search now uses the JSON format internally
86 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
87 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
89 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
90 user-specified formatting
92 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
93 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
94 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
95 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
96 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
98 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
99 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
101 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
102 ===========================
107 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
108 compilation error for this contrib package.
110 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
111 ===========================
116 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
118 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
119 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
120 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
121 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
123 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
124 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
127 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
128 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
129 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
130 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
133 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
135 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
138 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
139 =========================
141 Command-Line Interface
142 ----------------------
146 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
147 for a reply message and full information about the original message
148 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
149 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
151 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
152 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
153 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
154 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
158 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
159 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
161 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
162 tag in your query, for example:
164 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
166 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
167 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
169 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
170 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
172 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
174 Raw show format changes
176 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
177 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
178 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
179 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
180 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
181 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
182 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
183 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
185 Listing configuration items
187 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
193 Changes to tagging interface
195 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
196 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
197 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
198 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
199 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
200 for more information.
202 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
203 may need to update in custom configurations.
205 Reply improvement using the JSON format
207 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
208 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
209 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
210 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
213 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
214 -----------------------------
216 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
217 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
218 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
219 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
220 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
221 contrib/ from now on.
226 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
227 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
229 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
230 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
232 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
233 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
234 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
236 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
237 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
239 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
240 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
241 returning the new database object or directory object.
248 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
249 compatible with go 1.
251 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
252 =========================
254 Command-Line Interface
255 ----------------------
259 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
260 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
261 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
262 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
264 Mail store folder/file ignore
266 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
267 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
268 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
270 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
271 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
273 Unified help and manual pages
275 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
276 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
279 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
281 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
282 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
290 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
291 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
292 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
293 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
295 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
297 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
298 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
300 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
303 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
304 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
305 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
307 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
309 should be changed to:
311 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
313 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
315 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
316 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
318 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
320 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
321 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
322 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
323 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
324 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
325 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
329 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
330 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
331 of Mailing List Archives.
333 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
335 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
336 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
339 Show view archiving key binding changes
341 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
342 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
343 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
344 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
345 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
348 Support text/calendar MIME type
350 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
353 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
355 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
356 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
357 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
358 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
360 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
362 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
363 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
364 messages blue by default in the search view.
368 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
369 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
376 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
379 Python bindings changes
380 -----------------------
382 Python 3.2 compatibility
384 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
386 Added missing unicode conversions
388 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
389 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
390 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
395 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
397 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
398 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
399 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
400 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
401 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
403 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
404 ===========================
409 Fix error handling in python bindings
411 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
412 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
413 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
414 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
416 Quote MML tags in replies
418 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
419 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
420 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
421 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
422 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
423 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
424 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
425 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
427 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
428 =========================
430 Command-Line Interface
431 ----------------------
435 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
436 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
437 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
438 importing new messages into the database.
440 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
442 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
443 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
444 sometimes. This is now fixed.
449 Automatic tag query optimization
451 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
452 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
453 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
455 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
457 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
458 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
459 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
464 Reduction of memory leaks
466 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
467 and fixed in this release.
474 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
475 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
476 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
479 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
481 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
482 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
483 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
486 Improvements in saved search management
488 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
489 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
490 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
492 Hooks for notmuch-hello
494 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
495 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
496 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
498 New face for crypto parts headers
500 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
501 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
502 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
505 Use space as default thousands separator
507 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
508 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
509 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
511 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
514 New function notmuch-show-advance
516 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
517 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
518 be bound to SPC with:
520 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
522 Various performance improvements
527 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
528 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
531 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
532 ===========================
537 Fix crash in python bindings
539 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
540 for some, but not all users.
542 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
543 ===========================
548 Fix `--help` argument
550 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
551 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
552 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
554 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
555 =========================
557 New build and testing features
558 ------------------------------
560 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
561 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
562 prerequisites is improved.
564 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
566 New command-line features
567 -------------------------
569 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
571 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
572 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
575 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
577 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
578 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
579 favour of using stdout.
581 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
583 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
584 limit the number of results shown.
586 Add `notmuch count --output` option
588 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
589 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
592 New emacs UI features
593 ---------------------
595 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
597 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
598 starting with "tag:".
600 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
602 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
603 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
605 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
607 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
609 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
611 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
612 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
617 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
619 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
621 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
622 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
623 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
624 requires a database rebuild:
626 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
627 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
629 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
631 New collection of add-on tools
632 ------------------------------
634 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
635 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
636 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
639 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
641 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
642 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
643 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
645 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
646 ========================
648 New, general features
649 ---------------------
651 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
653 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
654 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
655 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
656 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
657 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
664 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
665 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
667 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
671 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
672 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
673 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
676 Python bindings changes
677 -----------------------
679 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
681 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
682 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
683 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
684 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
685 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
686 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
688 Ruby bindings changes
689 ---------------------
691 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
692 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
693 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
694 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
699 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
701 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
702 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
704 Reply formatting cleanup
705 ------------------------
707 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
708 MIME parts are being suppressed.
710 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
711 ========================
713 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
715 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
716 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
717 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
718 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
721 Improved Build system portability
723 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
724 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
725 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
727 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
729 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
731 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
733 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
734 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
735 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
737 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
738 ========================
740 Vim interface improvements
741 --------------------------
743 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
745 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
746 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
747 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
748 * fix from list reformatting in search view
749 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
751 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
753 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
754 * fix compose temp file name
756 Python Bindings changes
757 -----------------------
759 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
761 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
762 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
764 Build-System improvements
765 -------------------------
767 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
769 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
772 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
773 ==========================
778 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
780 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
781 people running gcc 4.4.5.
783 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
784 =======================
786 New, general features
787 ---------------------
789 Folder-based searching
791 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
792 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
793 storage). The syntax is as follows:
797 For example, one might use things such as:
803 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
804 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
806 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
807 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
808 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
809 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
811 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
812 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
813 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
816 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
817 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
819 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
823 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
824 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
825 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
827 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
829 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
830 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
832 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
833 notmuch will receive these tags.
835 New command-line features
836 -------------------------
838 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
840 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
841 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
843 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
845 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
846 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
847 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
849 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
851 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
852 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
853 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
854 which parts a signature part applies).
856 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
858 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
859 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
860 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
861 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
862 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
865 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
867 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
868 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
869 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
870 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
871 by translating it internally to the new call.
873 Performance improvements
874 ------------------------
876 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
878 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
879 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
880 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
882 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
883 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
885 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
887 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
888 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
889 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
891 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
892 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
893 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
894 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
896 Faster initial indexing
898 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
899 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
900 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
902 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
904 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
905 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
906 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
907 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
909 New emacs-interface features
910 ----------------------------
912 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
914 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
915 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
916 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
917 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
918 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
919 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
921 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
923 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
924 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
925 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
926 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
928 User-selectable From address
930 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
931 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
932 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
933 will prompt for the from address to use.
935 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
936 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
937 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
939 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
940 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
941 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
944 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
946 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
947 its parent, the subject is not shown.
949 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
951 When a message contains a line looking something like:
953 ----- Original Message -----
955 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
956 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
957 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
958 citations work much like conventional citations.
960 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
962 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
963 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
964 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
965 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
966 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
968 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
969 Notmuch After Tag Hook
971 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
973 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
974 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
975 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
977 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
979 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
980 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
981 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
982 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
983 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
985 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
987 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
990 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
992 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
994 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
996 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
999 Vim interface improvements
1000 --------------------------
1002 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1004 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1005 * Implementing archive in show view
1006 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1007 * Add delete commands
1010 Bindings improvements
1011 ---------------------
1013 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1015 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1016 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1018 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1020 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1024 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1025 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1026 `list(Messages)` works now
1027 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1029 These allow, for example:
1031 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1033 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1035 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1041 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1043 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1046 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1048 New build-system features
1049 -------------------------
1051 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1053 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1054 the configure script from some other directory:
1061 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1063 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1064 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1065 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1066 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1067 manual invocation of configure.
1069 New test-suite feature
1070 ----------------------
1072 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1074 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1075 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1076 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1077 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1078 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1081 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1083 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1084 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1085 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1086 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1087 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1088 are updated to take advantage of this.
1090 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1092 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1093 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1094 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1095 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1101 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1103 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1104 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1105 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1107 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1109 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1111 to:user@elsewhere.com
1113 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1115 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1117 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1119 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1120 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1121 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1124 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1125 from the Received headers in some cases
1127 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1128 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1130 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1132 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1134 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1136 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1137 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1138 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1140 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1141 -------------------------
1143 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1145 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1146 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1147 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1149 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1151 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1152 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1153 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1156 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1158 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1159 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1160 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1161 fixed to avoid this bug.
1163 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1165 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1166 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1168 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1169 ========================
1171 New, general features
1172 ---------------------
1174 Maildir-flag synchronization
1176 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1177 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1186 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1188 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1189 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1190 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1191 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1193 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1194 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1195 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1196 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1199 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1201 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1202 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1203 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1205 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1206 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1208 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1209 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1211 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1212 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1213 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1215 New library features
1216 --------------------
1218 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1220 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1221 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1222 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1223 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1225 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1226 message with the new function:
1228 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1230 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1231 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1232 over all available filenames for a given message.
1234 New command-line features
1235 -------------------------
1237 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1239 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1240 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1241 access to the mail store itself.
1243 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1244 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1245 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1246 name of a script containing:
1248 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1250 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1251 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1257 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1259 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1261 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1263 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1264 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1265 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1266 now produces nothing).
1268 Emacs interface improvements
1269 ----------------------------
1271 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1273 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1275 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1277 Display current thread subject in a header line
1279 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1281 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1283 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1284 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1285 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1286 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1287 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1288 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1289 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1291 Vim interface improvements
1292 --------------------------
1294 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1296 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1297 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1303 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1305 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1306 ========================
1308 New command-line features
1309 -------------------------
1311 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1313 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1314 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1315 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1317 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1318 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1319 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1320 scripts. For example:
1322 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1323 <operations-on> "$file"
1326 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1328 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1329 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1330 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1331 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1332 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1333 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1335 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1337 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1338 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1339 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1340 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1342 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1344 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1345 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1346 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1347 default rather than Bcc.
1349 New library features
1350 --------------------
1352 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1354 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1355 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1360 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1362 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1363 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1364 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1365 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1366 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1367 notmuch customize interface.
1369 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1371 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1372 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1373 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1374 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1376 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1378 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1379 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1380 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1381 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1383 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1385 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1386 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1387 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1388 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1389 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1390 notmuch customize interface.
1392 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1394 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1395 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1396 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1397 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1398 notmuch customize interface.
1400 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1402 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1403 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1404 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1405 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1408 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1410 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1411 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1412 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1415 New build-system features
1416 -------------------------
1418 Various portability fixes have been applied
1420 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1421 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1422 more portable than ever before.
1424 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1426 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1427 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1428 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1430 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1431 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1432 automatically run ldconfig.
1434 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1435 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1436 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1438 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1439 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1440 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1441 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1443 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1445 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1446 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1447 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1448 used in the resulting Makefile.
1450 New test-suite features
1451 -----------------------
1453 New modularization of test suite
1455 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1456 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1457 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1458 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1459 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1460 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1461 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1462 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1464 New testing of emacs interface
1466 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1467 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1468 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1469 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1470 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1471 database via the FCC setting.
1476 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1478 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1479 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1480 persistent error of the form:
1482 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1484 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1485 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1487 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1489 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1490 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1491 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1493 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1495 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1496 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1497 parsing the notmuch results).
1499 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1501 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1504 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1505 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1506 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1511 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1513 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1514 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1515 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1516 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1517 the emacs interface.
1519 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1521 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1522 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1523 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1525 Python-binding fixes
1526 --------------------
1528 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1530 Debian-specific fixes
1531 ---------------------
1533 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1535 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1536 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1537 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1540 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1541 ==========================
1546 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1548 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1549 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1550 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1551 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1553 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1555 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1556 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1557 want notmuch to crash.
1562 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1564 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1565 directory does not exist
1570 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1572 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1573 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1575 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1576 ========================
1578 New command-line features
1579 -------------------------
1581 User-configurable tags for new messages
1583 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1584 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1585 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1586 to specify this value.
1588 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1590 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1591 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1592 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1594 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1596 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1597 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1599 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1601 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1602 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1603 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1604 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1605 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1608 Indication of author names that match a search
1610 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1611 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1612 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1613 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1614 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1615 messages in the thread are listed first.
1617 New: Python bindings
1618 --------------------
1620 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1621 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1622 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1623 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1625 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1626 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1627 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1630 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1631 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1632 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1634 Emacs interface improvements
1635 ----------------------------
1637 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1639 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1640 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1641 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1642 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1643 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1644 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1645 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1646 but without any of the disadvantages).
1648 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1649 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1650 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1653 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1654 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1655 instead running something like:
1657 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1659 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1660 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1661 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1664 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1666 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1667 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1668 tweaked by the user.
1670 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1671 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1672 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1675 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1676 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1677 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1680 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1682 This support currently relies on an external program,
1683 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1684 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1685 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1686 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1687 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1690 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1691 notmuch) is available via:
1693 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1695 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1696 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1697 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1699 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1701 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1702 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1703 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1704 making this automatic in a future release.
1706 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1708 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1709 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1710 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1711 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1712 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1713 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1716 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1718 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1719 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1720 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1722 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1724 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1725 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1726 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1728 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1729 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1730 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1731 other representation.
1733 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1734 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1737 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1739 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1740 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1741 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1743 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1744 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1745 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1747 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1749 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1750 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1751 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1752 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1753 to display the search result.
1755 More flexible handling of header visibility
1757 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1758 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1759 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1760 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1761 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1762 with the 'h' keybinding.
1764 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1765 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1766 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1768 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1770 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1772 Customizable formatting of search results
1774 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1775 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1776 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1778 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1780 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1782 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1787 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1789 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1790 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1791 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1792 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1798 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1800 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1801 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1803 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1805 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1806 accept are now all accepted.
1811 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1813 Better display of output from failed tests
1815 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1816 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1818 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1819 ========================
1821 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1822 detailed release notes this time!
1824 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1825 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1827 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1828 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1829 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1830 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1837 Better guessing of From: header
1839 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1840 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1841 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1842 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1843 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1846 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1848 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1849 guaranteed to match all messages.
1851 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1853 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1854 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1855 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1856 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1857 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1860 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1863 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1864 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1865 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1866 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1871 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1873 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1874 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1875 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1876 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1878 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1880 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1882 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1883 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1884 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1886 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1888 Previously, the user might see:
1890 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1894 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1896 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1897 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1898 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1899 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1901 Emacs client features
1902 ---------------------
1904 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1906 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1907 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1908 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1909 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1910 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1912 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1915 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1916 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1917 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1918 search with the '*' binding.
1920 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1922 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1923 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1926 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1928 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1929 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1930 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1932 Build-system features
1933 ---------------------
1935 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1937 Add support to configure for many standard options
1939 We include actual support for:
1941 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1943 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1945 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1946 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1948 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1949 separate "make install-emacs"
1951 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1953 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1954 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1955 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1957 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1960 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1961 ========================
1963 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1965 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1966 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1968 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1969 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1970 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1971 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1972 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1973 tags from messages in a thread.
1980 indent-tabs-mode: nil