1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
9 Bash command-line completion
11 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
12 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
13 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
14 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
15 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
16 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
17 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
18 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
19 bash-completion package.
24 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
25 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
26 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
27 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
28 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
30 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
31 ===========================
36 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
38 Internal test framework changes
39 -------------------------------
41 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
44 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
45 ===========================
47 Internal test framework changes
48 -------------------------------
50 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
51 build failures in non-interactive environments.
53 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
54 =========================
59 Date range search support
61 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
62 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
63 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
64 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
65 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
68 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
70 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
71 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
72 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
73 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
74 but may be removed in a future release.
76 Command-Line Interface
77 ----------------------
79 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
81 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
82 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
84 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
86 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
87 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
88 officially deprecated.
90 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
92 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
93 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
94 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
96 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
98 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
99 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
102 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
103 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
106 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
108 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
109 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
110 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
112 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
114 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
115 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
116 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
118 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
120 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
121 output separated by null characters rather than newline
122 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
123 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
128 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
130 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
131 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
132 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
133 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
135 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
137 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
138 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
139 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
140 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
141 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
142 the behavior of this, see
143 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
144 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
146 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
147 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
148 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
150 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
152 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
153 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
156 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
158 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
159 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
160 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
161 simply displayed in place of the message.
163 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
165 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
166 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
168 Improved text/calendar content handling
170 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
171 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
172 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
173 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
175 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
177 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
178 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
179 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
180 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
182 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
184 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
185 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
186 for HTML email containing images.
188 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
190 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
192 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
194 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
197 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
199 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
200 the point where it was.
202 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
204 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
205 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
206 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
207 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
208 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
210 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
212 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
213 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
214 thread instead of the message id.
216 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
217 -----------------------------
219 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
220 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
221 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
222 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
223 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
224 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
225 further details and installation.
230 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
232 Internal test framework changes
233 -------------------------------
235 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
237 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
238 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
239 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
240 can result in buggy behavior.
242 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
243 =========================
248 Maildir tag synchronization
250 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
251 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
252 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
253 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
254 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
255 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
258 Command-Line Interface
259 ----------------------
261 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
262 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
263 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
264 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
265 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
271 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
273 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
275 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
276 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
277 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
279 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
281 It is now possible to embed newlines in
282 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
285 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
287 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
288 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
289 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
290 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
291 inside the result or message.
293 Search now uses the JSON format internally
295 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
296 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
298 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
299 user-specified formatting
301 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
302 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
303 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
304 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
305 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
307 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
308 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
310 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
311 ===========================
316 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
317 compilation error for this contrib package.
319 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
320 ===========================
325 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
327 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
328 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
329 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
330 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
332 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
333 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
336 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
337 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
338 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
339 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
342 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
344 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
347 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
348 =========================
350 Command-Line Interface
351 ----------------------
355 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
356 for a reply message and full information about the original message
357 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
358 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
360 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
361 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
362 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
363 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
367 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
368 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
370 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
371 tag in your query, for example:
373 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
375 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
376 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
378 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
379 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
381 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
383 Raw show format changes
385 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
386 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
387 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
388 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
389 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
390 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
391 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
392 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
394 Listing configuration items
396 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
402 Changes to tagging interface
404 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
405 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
406 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
407 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
408 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
409 for more information.
411 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
412 may need to update in custom configurations.
414 Reply improvement using the JSON format
416 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
417 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
418 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
419 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
422 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
423 -----------------------------
425 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
426 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
427 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
428 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
429 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
430 contrib/ from now on.
435 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
436 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
438 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
439 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
441 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
442 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
443 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
445 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
446 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
448 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
449 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
450 returning the new database object or directory object.
457 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
458 compatible with go 1.
460 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
461 =========================
463 Command-Line Interface
464 ----------------------
468 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
469 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
470 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
471 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
473 Mail store folder/file ignore
475 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
476 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
477 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
479 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
480 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
482 Unified help and manual pages
484 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
485 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
488 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
490 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
491 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
499 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
500 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
501 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
502 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
504 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
506 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
507 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
509 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
512 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
513 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
514 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
516 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
518 should be changed to:
520 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
522 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
524 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
525 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
527 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
529 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
530 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
531 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
532 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
533 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
534 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
538 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
539 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
540 of Mailing List Archives.
542 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
544 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
545 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
548 Show view archiving key binding changes
550 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
551 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
552 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
553 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
554 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
557 Support text/calendar MIME type
559 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
562 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
564 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
565 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
566 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
567 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
569 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
571 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
572 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
573 messages blue by default in the search view.
577 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
578 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
585 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
588 Python bindings changes
589 -----------------------
591 Python 3.2 compatibility
593 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
595 Added missing unicode conversions
597 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
598 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
599 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
604 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
606 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
607 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
608 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
609 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
610 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
612 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
613 ===========================
618 Fix error handling in python bindings
620 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
621 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
622 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
623 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
625 Quote MML tags in replies
627 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
628 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
629 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
630 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
631 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
632 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
633 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
634 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
636 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
637 =========================
639 Command-Line Interface
640 ----------------------
644 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
645 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
646 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
647 importing new messages into the database.
649 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
651 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
652 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
653 sometimes. This is now fixed.
658 Automatic tag query optimization
660 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
661 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
662 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
664 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
666 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
667 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
668 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
673 Reduction of memory leaks
675 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
676 and fixed in this release.
683 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
684 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
685 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
688 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
690 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
691 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
692 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
695 Improvements in saved search management
697 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
698 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
699 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
701 Hooks for notmuch-hello
703 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
704 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
705 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
707 New face for crypto parts headers
709 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
710 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
711 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
714 Use space as default thousands separator
716 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
717 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
718 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
720 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
723 New function notmuch-show-advance
725 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
726 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
727 be bound to SPC with:
729 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
731 Various performance improvements
736 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
737 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
740 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
741 ===========================
746 Fix crash in python bindings
748 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
749 for some, but not all users.
751 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
752 ===========================
757 Fix `--help` argument
759 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
760 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
761 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
763 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
764 =========================
766 New build and testing features
767 ------------------------------
769 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
770 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
771 prerequisites is improved.
773 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
775 New command-line features
776 -------------------------
778 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
780 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
781 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
784 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
786 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
787 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
788 favour of using stdout.
790 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
792 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
793 limit the number of results shown.
795 Add `notmuch count --output` option
797 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
798 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
801 New emacs UI features
802 ---------------------
804 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
806 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
807 starting with "tag:".
809 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
811 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
812 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
814 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
816 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
818 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
820 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
821 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
826 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
828 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
830 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
831 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
832 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
833 requires a database rebuild:
835 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
836 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
838 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
840 New collection of add-on tools
841 ------------------------------
843 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
844 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
845 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
848 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
850 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
851 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
852 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
854 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
855 ========================
857 New, general features
858 ---------------------
860 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
862 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
863 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
864 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
865 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
866 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
873 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
874 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
876 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
880 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
881 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
882 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
885 Python bindings changes
886 -----------------------
888 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
890 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
891 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
892 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
893 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
894 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
895 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
897 Ruby bindings changes
898 ---------------------
900 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
901 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
902 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
903 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
908 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
910 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
911 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
913 Reply formatting cleanup
914 ------------------------
916 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
917 MIME parts are being suppressed.
919 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
920 ========================
922 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
924 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
925 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
926 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
927 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
930 Improved Build system portability
932 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
933 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
934 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
936 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
938 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
940 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
942 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
943 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
944 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
946 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
947 ========================
949 Vim interface improvements
950 --------------------------
952 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
954 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
955 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
956 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
957 * fix from list reformatting in search view
958 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
960 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
962 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
963 * fix compose temp file name
965 Python Bindings changes
966 -----------------------
968 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
970 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
971 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
973 Build-System improvements
974 -------------------------
976 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
978 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
981 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
982 ==========================
987 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
989 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
990 people running gcc 4.4.5.
992 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
993 =======================
995 New, general features
996 ---------------------
998 Folder-based searching
1000 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1001 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1002 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1006 For example, one might use things such as:
1012 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1013 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1015 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1016 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1017 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1018 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1020 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1021 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1022 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1025 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1026 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1028 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1030 Support for PGP/MIME
1032 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1033 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1034 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1036 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1038 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1039 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1041 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1042 notmuch will receive these tags.
1044 New command-line features
1045 -------------------------
1047 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1049 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1050 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1052 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1054 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1055 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1056 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1058 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1060 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1061 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1062 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1063 which parts a signature part applies).
1065 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1067 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1068 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1069 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1070 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1071 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1074 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1076 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1077 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1078 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1079 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1080 by translating it internally to the new call.
1082 Performance improvements
1083 ------------------------
1085 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1087 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1088 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1089 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1091 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1092 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1094 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1096 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1097 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1098 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1100 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1101 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1102 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1103 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1105 Faster initial indexing
1107 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1108 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1109 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1111 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1113 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1114 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1115 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1116 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1118 New emacs-interface features
1119 ----------------------------
1121 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1123 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1124 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1125 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1126 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1127 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1128 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1130 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1132 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1133 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1134 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1135 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1137 User-selectable From address
1139 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1140 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1141 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1142 will prompt for the from address to use.
1144 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1145 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1146 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1148 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1149 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1150 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1153 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1155 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1156 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1158 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1160 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1162 ----- Original Message -----
1164 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1165 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1166 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1167 citations work much like conventional citations.
1169 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1171 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1172 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1173 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1174 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1175 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1177 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1178 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1180 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1182 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1183 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1184 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1186 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1188 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1189 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1190 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1191 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1192 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1194 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1196 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1199 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1201 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1203 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1205 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1208 Vim interface improvements
1209 --------------------------
1211 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1213 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1214 * Implementing archive in show view
1215 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1216 * Add delete commands
1219 Bindings improvements
1220 ---------------------
1222 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1224 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1225 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1227 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1229 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1233 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1234 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1235 `list(Messages)` works now
1236 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1238 These allow, for example:
1240 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1242 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1244 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1250 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1252 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1255 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1257 New build-system features
1258 -------------------------
1260 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1262 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1263 the configure script from some other directory:
1270 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1272 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1273 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1274 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1275 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1276 manual invocation of configure.
1278 New test-suite feature
1279 ----------------------
1281 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1283 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1284 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1285 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1286 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1287 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1290 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1292 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1293 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1294 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1295 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1296 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1297 are updated to take advantage of this.
1299 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1301 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1302 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1303 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1304 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1310 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1312 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1313 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1314 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1316 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1318 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1320 to:user@elsewhere.com
1322 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1324 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1326 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1328 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1329 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1330 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1333 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1334 from the Received headers in some cases
1336 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1337 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1339 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1341 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1343 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1345 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1346 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1347 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1349 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1350 -------------------------
1352 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1354 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1355 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1356 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1358 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1360 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1361 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1362 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1365 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1367 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1368 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1369 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1370 fixed to avoid this bug.
1372 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1374 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1375 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1377 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1378 ========================
1380 New, general features
1381 ---------------------
1383 Maildir-flag synchronization
1385 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1386 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1395 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1397 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1398 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1399 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1400 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1402 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1403 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1404 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1405 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1408 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1410 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1411 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1412 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1414 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1415 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1417 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1418 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1420 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1421 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1422 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1424 New library features
1425 --------------------
1427 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1429 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1430 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1431 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1432 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1434 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1435 message with the new function:
1437 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1439 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1440 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1441 over all available filenames for a given message.
1443 New command-line features
1444 -------------------------
1446 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1448 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1449 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1450 access to the mail store itself.
1452 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1453 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1454 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1455 name of a script containing:
1457 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1459 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1460 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1466 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1468 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1470 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1472 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1473 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1474 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1475 now produces nothing).
1477 Emacs interface improvements
1478 ----------------------------
1480 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1482 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1484 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1486 Display current thread subject in a header line
1488 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1490 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1492 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1493 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1494 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1495 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1496 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1497 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1498 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1500 Vim interface improvements
1501 --------------------------
1503 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1505 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1506 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1512 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1514 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1515 ========================
1517 New command-line features
1518 -------------------------
1520 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1522 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1523 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1524 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1526 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1527 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1528 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1529 scripts. For example:
1531 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1532 <operations-on> "$file"
1535 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1537 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1538 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1539 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1540 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1541 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1542 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1544 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1546 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1547 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1548 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1549 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1551 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1553 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1554 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1555 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1556 default rather than Bcc.
1558 New library features
1559 --------------------
1561 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1563 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1564 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1569 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1571 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1572 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1573 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1574 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1575 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1576 notmuch customize interface.
1578 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1580 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1581 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1582 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1583 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1585 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1587 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1588 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1589 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1590 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1592 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1594 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1595 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1596 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1597 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1598 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1599 notmuch customize interface.
1601 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1603 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1604 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1605 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1606 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1607 notmuch customize interface.
1609 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1611 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1612 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1613 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1614 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1617 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1619 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1620 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1621 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1624 New build-system features
1625 -------------------------
1627 Various portability fixes have been applied
1629 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1630 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1631 more portable than ever before.
1633 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1635 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1636 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1637 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1639 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1640 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1641 automatically run ldconfig.
1643 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1644 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1645 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1647 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1648 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1649 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1650 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1652 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1654 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1655 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1656 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1657 used in the resulting Makefile.
1659 New test-suite features
1660 -----------------------
1662 New modularization of test suite
1664 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1665 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1666 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1667 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1668 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1669 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1670 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1671 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1673 New testing of emacs interface
1675 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1676 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1677 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1678 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1679 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1680 database via the FCC setting.
1685 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1687 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1688 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1689 persistent error of the form:
1691 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1693 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1694 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1696 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1698 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1699 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1700 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1702 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1704 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1705 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1706 parsing the notmuch results).
1708 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1710 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1713 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1714 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1715 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1720 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1722 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1723 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1724 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1725 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1726 the emacs interface.
1728 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1730 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1731 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1732 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1734 Python-binding fixes
1735 --------------------
1737 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1739 Debian-specific fixes
1740 ---------------------
1742 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1744 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1745 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1746 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1749 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1750 ==========================
1755 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1757 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1758 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1759 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1760 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1762 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1764 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1765 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1766 want notmuch to crash.
1771 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1773 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1774 directory does not exist
1779 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1781 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1782 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1784 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1785 ========================
1787 New command-line features
1788 -------------------------
1790 User-configurable tags for new messages
1792 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1793 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1794 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1795 to specify this value.
1797 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1799 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1800 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1801 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1803 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1805 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1806 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1808 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1810 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1811 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1812 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1813 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1814 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1817 Indication of author names that match a search
1819 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1820 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1821 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1822 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1823 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1824 messages in the thread are listed first.
1826 New: Python bindings
1827 --------------------
1829 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1830 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1831 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1832 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1834 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1835 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1836 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1839 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1840 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1841 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1843 Emacs interface improvements
1844 ----------------------------
1846 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1848 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1849 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1850 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1851 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1852 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1853 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1854 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1855 but without any of the disadvantages).
1857 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1858 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1859 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1862 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1863 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1864 instead running something like:
1866 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1868 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1869 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1870 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1873 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1875 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1876 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1877 tweaked by the user.
1879 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1880 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1881 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1884 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1885 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1886 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1889 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1891 This support currently relies on an external program,
1892 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1893 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1894 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1895 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1896 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1899 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1900 notmuch) is available via:
1902 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1904 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1905 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1906 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1908 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1910 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1911 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1912 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1913 making this automatic in a future release.
1915 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1917 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1918 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1919 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1920 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1921 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1922 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1925 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1927 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1928 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1929 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1931 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1933 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1934 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1935 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1937 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1938 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1939 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1940 other representation.
1942 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1943 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1946 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1948 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1949 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1950 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1952 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1953 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1954 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1956 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1958 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1959 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1960 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1961 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1962 to display the search result.
1964 More flexible handling of header visibility
1966 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1967 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1968 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1969 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1970 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1971 with the 'h' keybinding.
1973 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1974 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1975 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1977 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1979 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1981 Customizable formatting of search results
1983 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1984 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1985 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1987 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1989 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1991 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1996 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1998 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1999 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2000 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2001 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2007 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2009 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2010 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2012 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2014 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2015 accept are now all accepted.
2020 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2022 Better display of output from failed tests
2024 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2025 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2027 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2028 ========================
2030 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2031 detailed release notes this time!
2033 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2034 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2036 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2037 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2038 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2039 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2046 Better guessing of From: header
2048 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2049 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2050 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2051 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2052 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2055 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2057 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2058 guaranteed to match all messages.
2060 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2062 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2063 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2064 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2065 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2066 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2069 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2072 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2073 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2074 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2075 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2080 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2082 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2083 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2084 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2085 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2087 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2089 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2091 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2092 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2093 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2095 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2097 Previously, the user might see:
2099 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2103 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2105 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2106 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2107 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2108 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2110 Emacs client features
2111 ---------------------
2113 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2115 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2116 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2117 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2118 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2119 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2121 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2124 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2125 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2126 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2127 search with the '*' binding.
2129 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2131 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2132 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2135 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2137 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2138 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2139 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2141 Build-system features
2142 ---------------------
2144 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2146 Add support to configure for many standard options
2148 We include actual support for:
2150 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2152 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2154 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2155 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2157 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2158 separate "make install-emacs"
2160 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2162 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2163 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2164 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2166 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2169 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2170 ========================
2172 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2174 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2175 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2177 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2178 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2179 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2180 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2181 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2182 tags from messages in a thread.
2189 indent-tabs-mode: nil