1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Top level option to redirect writes to stderr
40 With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to
41 the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout.
43 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
45 Bash command-line completion
47 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
48 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
49 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
50 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
51 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
52 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
53 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
54 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
55 bash-completion package.
60 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
61 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
66 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
68 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
69 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
70 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
71 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
72 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
73 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
74 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
75 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
77 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
79 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
80 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
81 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
83 Better handling of errors in search buffers
85 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
86 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
90 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
91 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
92 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
96 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
97 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
98 in question was now removed from this release.
100 Key bindings for next/previous thread
102 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
103 previous thread in the search results.
105 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
106 ===========================
111 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
113 Internal test framework changes
114 -------------------------------
116 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
119 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
120 ===========================
122 Internal test framework changes
123 -------------------------------
125 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
126 build failures in non-interactive environments.
128 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
129 =========================
134 Date range search support
136 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
137 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
138 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
139 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
140 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
143 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
145 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
146 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
147 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
148 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
149 but may be removed in a future release.
151 Command-Line Interface
152 ----------------------
154 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
156 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
157 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
159 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
161 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
162 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
163 officially deprecated.
165 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
167 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
168 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
169 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
171 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
173 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
174 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
177 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
178 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
181 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
183 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
184 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
185 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
187 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
189 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
190 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
191 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
193 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
195 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
196 output separated by null characters rather than newline
197 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
198 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
203 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
205 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
206 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
207 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
208 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
210 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
212 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
213 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
214 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
215 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
216 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
217 the behavior of this, see
218 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
219 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
221 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
222 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
223 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
225 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
227 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
228 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
231 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
233 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
234 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
235 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
236 simply displayed in place of the message.
238 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
240 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
241 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
243 Improved text/calendar content handling
245 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
246 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
247 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
248 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
250 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
252 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
253 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
254 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
255 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
257 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
259 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
260 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
261 for HTML email containing images.
263 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
265 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
267 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
269 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
272 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
274 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
275 the point where it was.
277 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
279 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
280 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
281 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
282 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
283 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
285 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
287 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
288 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
289 thread instead of the message id.
291 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
292 -----------------------------
294 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
295 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
296 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
297 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
298 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
299 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
300 further details and installation.
305 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
307 Internal test framework changes
308 -------------------------------
310 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
312 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
313 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
314 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
315 can result in buggy behavior.
317 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
318 =========================
323 Maildir tag synchronization
325 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
326 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
327 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
328 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
329 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
330 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
333 Command-Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
337 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
338 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
339 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
340 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
346 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
348 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
350 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
351 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
352 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
354 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
356 It is now possible to embed newlines in
357 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
360 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
362 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
363 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
364 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
365 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
366 inside the result or message.
368 Search now uses the JSON format internally
370 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
371 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
373 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
374 user-specified formatting
376 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
377 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
378 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
379 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
380 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
382 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
383 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
385 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
386 ===========================
391 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
392 compilation error for this contrib package.
394 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
395 ===========================
400 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
402 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
403 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
404 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
405 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
407 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
408 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
411 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
412 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
413 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
414 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
417 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
419 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
422 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
423 =========================
425 Command-Line Interface
426 ----------------------
430 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
431 for a reply message and full information about the original message
432 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
433 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
435 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
436 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
437 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
438 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
442 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
443 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
445 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
446 tag in your query, for example:
448 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
450 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
451 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
453 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
454 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
456 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
458 Raw show format changes
460 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
461 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
462 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
463 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
464 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
465 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
466 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
467 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
469 Listing configuration items
471 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
477 Changes to tagging interface
479 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
480 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
481 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
482 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
483 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
484 for more information.
486 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
487 may need to update in custom configurations.
489 Reply improvement using the JSON format
491 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
492 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
493 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
494 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
497 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
498 -----------------------------
500 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
501 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
502 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
503 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
504 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
505 contrib/ from now on.
510 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
511 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
513 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
514 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
516 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
517 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
518 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
520 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
521 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
523 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
524 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
525 returning the new database object or directory object.
532 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
533 compatible with go 1.
535 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
536 =========================
538 Command-Line Interface
539 ----------------------
543 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
544 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
545 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
546 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
548 Mail store folder/file ignore
550 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
551 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
552 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
554 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
555 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
557 Unified help and manual pages
559 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
560 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
563 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
565 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
566 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
574 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
575 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
576 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
577 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
579 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
581 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
582 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
584 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
587 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
588 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
589 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
591 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
593 should be changed to:
595 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
597 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
599 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
600 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
602 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
604 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
605 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
606 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
607 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
608 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
609 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
613 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
614 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
615 of Mailing List Archives.
617 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
619 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
620 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
623 Show view archiving key binding changes
625 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
626 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
627 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
628 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
629 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
632 Support text/calendar MIME type
634 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
637 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
639 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
640 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
641 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
642 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
644 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
646 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
647 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
648 messages blue by default in the search view.
652 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
653 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
660 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
663 Python bindings changes
664 -----------------------
666 Python 3.2 compatibility
668 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
670 Added missing unicode conversions
672 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
673 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
674 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
679 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
681 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
682 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
683 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
684 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
685 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
687 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
688 ===========================
693 Fix error handling in python bindings
695 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
696 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
697 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
698 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
700 Quote MML tags in replies
702 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
703 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
704 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
705 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
706 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
707 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
708 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
709 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
711 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
712 =========================
714 Command-Line Interface
715 ----------------------
719 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
720 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
721 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
722 importing new messages into the database.
724 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
726 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
727 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
728 sometimes. This is now fixed.
733 Automatic tag query optimization
735 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
736 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
737 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
739 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
741 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
742 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
743 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
748 Reduction of memory leaks
750 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
751 and fixed in this release.
758 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
759 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
760 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
763 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
765 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
766 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
767 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
770 Improvements in saved search management
772 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
773 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
774 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
776 Hooks for notmuch-hello
778 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
779 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
780 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
782 New face for crypto parts headers
784 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
785 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
786 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
789 Use space as default thousands separator
791 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
792 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
793 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
795 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
798 New function notmuch-show-advance
800 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
801 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
802 be bound to SPC with:
804 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
806 Various performance improvements
811 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
812 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
815 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
816 ===========================
821 Fix crash in python bindings
823 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
824 for some, but not all users.
826 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
827 ===========================
832 Fix `--help` argument
834 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
835 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
836 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
838 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
839 =========================
841 New build and testing features
842 ------------------------------
844 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
845 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
846 prerequisites is improved.
848 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
850 New command-line features
851 -------------------------
853 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
855 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
856 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
859 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
861 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
862 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
863 favour of using stdout.
865 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
867 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
868 limit the number of results shown.
870 Add `notmuch count --output` option
872 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
873 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
876 New emacs UI features
877 ---------------------
879 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
881 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
882 starting with "tag:".
884 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
886 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
887 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
889 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
891 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
893 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
895 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
896 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
901 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
903 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
905 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
906 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
907 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
908 requires a database rebuild:
910 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
911 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
913 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
915 New collection of add-on tools
916 ------------------------------
918 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
919 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
920 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
923 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
925 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
926 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
927 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
929 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
930 ========================
932 New, general features
933 ---------------------
935 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
937 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
938 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
939 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
940 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
941 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
948 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
949 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
951 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
955 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
956 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
957 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
960 Python bindings changes
961 -----------------------
963 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
965 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
966 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
967 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
968 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
969 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
970 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
972 Ruby bindings changes
973 ---------------------
975 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
976 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
977 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
978 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
983 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
985 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
986 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
988 Reply formatting cleanup
989 ------------------------
991 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
992 MIME parts are being suppressed.
994 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
995 ========================
997 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
999 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1000 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1001 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1002 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1005 Improved Build system portability
1007 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1008 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1009 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1011 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1013 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1015 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1017 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1018 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1019 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1021 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1022 ========================
1024 Vim interface improvements
1025 --------------------------
1027 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1029 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1030 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1031 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1032 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1033 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1035 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1037 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1038 * fix compose temp file name
1040 Python Bindings changes
1041 -----------------------
1043 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1045 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1046 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1048 Build-System improvements
1049 -------------------------
1051 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1053 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1056 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1057 ==========================
1062 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1064 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1065 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1067 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1068 =======================
1070 New, general features
1071 ---------------------
1073 Folder-based searching
1075 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1076 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1077 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1081 For example, one might use things such as:
1087 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1088 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1090 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1091 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1092 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1093 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1095 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1096 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1097 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1100 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1101 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1103 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1105 Support for PGP/MIME
1107 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1108 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1109 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1111 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1113 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1114 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1116 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1117 notmuch will receive these tags.
1119 New command-line features
1120 -------------------------
1122 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1124 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1125 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1127 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1129 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1130 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1131 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1133 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1135 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1136 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1137 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1138 which parts a signature part applies).
1140 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1142 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1143 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1144 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1145 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1146 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1149 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1151 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1152 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1153 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1154 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1155 by translating it internally to the new call.
1157 Performance improvements
1158 ------------------------
1160 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1162 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1163 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1164 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1166 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1167 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1169 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1171 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1172 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1173 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1175 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1176 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1177 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1178 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1180 Faster initial indexing
1182 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1183 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1184 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1186 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1188 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1189 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1190 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1191 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1193 New emacs-interface features
1194 ----------------------------
1196 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1198 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1199 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1200 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1201 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1202 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1203 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1205 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1207 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1208 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1209 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1210 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1212 User-selectable From address
1214 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1215 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1216 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1217 will prompt for the from address to use.
1219 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1220 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1221 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1223 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1224 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1225 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1228 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1230 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1231 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1233 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1235 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1237 ----- Original Message -----
1239 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1240 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1241 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1242 citations work much like conventional citations.
1244 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1246 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1247 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1248 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1249 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1250 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1252 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1253 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1255 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1257 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1258 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1259 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1261 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1263 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1264 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1265 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1266 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1267 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1269 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1271 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1274 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1276 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1278 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1280 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1283 Vim interface improvements
1284 --------------------------
1286 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1288 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1289 * Implementing archive in show view
1290 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1291 * Add delete commands
1294 Bindings improvements
1295 ---------------------
1297 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1299 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1300 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1302 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1304 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1308 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1309 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1310 `list(Messages)` works now
1311 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1313 These allow, for example:
1315 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1317 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1319 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1325 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1327 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1330 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1332 New build-system features
1333 -------------------------
1335 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1337 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1338 the configure script from some other directory:
1345 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1347 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1348 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1349 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1350 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1351 manual invocation of configure.
1353 New test-suite feature
1354 ----------------------
1356 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1358 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1359 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1360 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1361 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1362 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1365 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1367 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1368 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1369 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1370 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1371 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1372 are updated to take advantage of this.
1374 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1376 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1377 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1378 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1379 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1385 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1387 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1388 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1389 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1391 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1393 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1395 to:user@elsewhere.com
1397 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1399 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1401 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1403 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1404 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1405 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1408 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1409 from the Received headers in some cases
1411 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1412 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1414 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1416 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1418 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1420 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1421 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1422 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1424 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1425 -------------------------
1427 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1429 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1430 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1431 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1433 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1435 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1436 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1437 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1440 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1442 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1443 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1444 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1445 fixed to avoid this bug.
1447 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1449 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1450 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1452 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1453 ========================
1455 New, general features
1456 ---------------------
1458 Maildir-flag synchronization
1460 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1461 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1470 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1472 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1473 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1474 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1475 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1477 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1478 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1479 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1480 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1483 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1485 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1486 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1487 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1489 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1490 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1492 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1493 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1495 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1496 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1497 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1499 New library features
1500 --------------------
1502 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1504 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1505 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1506 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1507 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1509 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1510 message with the new function:
1512 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1514 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1515 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1516 over all available filenames for a given message.
1518 New command-line features
1519 -------------------------
1521 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1523 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1524 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1525 access to the mail store itself.
1527 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1528 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1529 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1530 name of a script containing:
1532 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1534 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1535 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1541 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1543 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1545 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1547 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1548 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1549 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1550 now produces nothing).
1552 Emacs interface improvements
1553 ----------------------------
1555 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1557 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1559 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1561 Display current thread subject in a header line
1563 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1565 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1567 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1568 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1569 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1570 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1571 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1572 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1573 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1575 Vim interface improvements
1576 --------------------------
1578 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1580 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1581 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1587 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1589 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1590 ========================
1592 New command-line features
1593 -------------------------
1595 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1597 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1598 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1599 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1601 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1602 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1603 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1604 scripts. For example:
1606 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1607 <operations-on> "$file"
1610 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1612 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1613 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1614 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1615 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1616 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1617 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1619 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1621 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1622 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1623 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1624 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1626 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1628 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1629 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1630 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1631 default rather than Bcc.
1633 New library features
1634 --------------------
1636 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1638 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1639 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1644 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1646 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1647 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1648 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1649 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1650 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1651 notmuch customize interface.
1653 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1655 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1656 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1657 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1658 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1660 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1662 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1663 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1664 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1665 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1667 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1669 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1670 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1671 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1672 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1673 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1674 notmuch customize interface.
1676 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1678 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1679 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1680 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1681 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1682 notmuch customize interface.
1684 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1686 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1687 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1688 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1689 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1692 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1694 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1695 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1696 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1699 New build-system features
1700 -------------------------
1702 Various portability fixes have been applied
1704 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1705 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1706 more portable than ever before.
1708 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1710 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1711 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1712 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1714 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1715 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1716 automatically run ldconfig.
1718 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1719 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1720 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1722 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1723 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1724 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1725 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1727 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1729 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1730 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1731 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1732 used in the resulting Makefile.
1734 New test-suite features
1735 -----------------------
1737 New modularization of test suite
1739 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1740 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1741 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1742 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1743 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1744 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1745 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1746 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1748 New testing of emacs interface
1750 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1751 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1752 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1753 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1754 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1755 database via the FCC setting.
1760 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1762 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1763 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1764 persistent error of the form:
1766 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1768 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1769 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1771 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1773 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1774 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1775 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1777 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1779 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1780 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1781 parsing the notmuch results).
1783 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1785 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1788 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1789 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1790 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1795 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1797 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1798 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1799 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1800 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1801 the emacs interface.
1803 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1805 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1806 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1807 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1809 Python-binding fixes
1810 --------------------
1812 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1814 Debian-specific fixes
1815 ---------------------
1817 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1819 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1820 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1821 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1824 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1825 ==========================
1830 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1832 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1833 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1834 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1835 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1837 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1839 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1840 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1841 want notmuch to crash.
1846 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1848 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1849 directory does not exist
1854 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1856 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1857 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1859 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1860 ========================
1862 New command-line features
1863 -------------------------
1865 User-configurable tags for new messages
1867 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1868 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1869 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1870 to specify this value.
1872 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1874 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1875 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1876 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1878 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1880 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1881 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1883 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1885 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1886 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1887 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1888 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1889 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1892 Indication of author names that match a search
1894 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1895 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1896 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1897 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1898 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1899 messages in the thread are listed first.
1901 New: Python bindings
1902 --------------------
1904 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1905 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1906 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1907 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1909 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1910 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1911 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1914 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1915 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1916 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1918 Emacs interface improvements
1919 ----------------------------
1921 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1923 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1924 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1925 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1926 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1927 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1928 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1929 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1930 but without any of the disadvantages).
1932 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1933 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1934 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1937 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1938 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1939 instead running something like:
1941 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1943 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1944 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1945 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1948 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1950 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1951 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1952 tweaked by the user.
1954 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1955 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1956 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1959 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1960 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1961 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1964 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1966 This support currently relies on an external program,
1967 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1968 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1969 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1970 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1971 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1974 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1975 notmuch) is available via:
1977 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1979 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1980 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1981 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1983 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1985 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1986 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1987 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1988 making this automatic in a future release.
1990 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1992 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1993 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1994 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1995 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1996 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1997 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2000 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2002 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2003 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2004 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2006 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2008 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2009 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2010 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2012 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2013 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2014 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2015 other representation.
2017 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2018 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2021 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2023 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2024 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2025 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2027 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2028 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2029 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2031 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2033 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2034 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2035 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2036 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2037 to display the search result.
2039 More flexible handling of header visibility
2041 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2042 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2043 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2044 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2045 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2046 with the 'h' keybinding.
2048 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2049 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2050 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2052 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2054 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2056 Customizable formatting of search results
2058 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2059 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2060 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2062 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2064 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2066 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2071 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2073 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2074 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2075 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2076 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2082 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2084 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2085 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2087 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2089 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2090 accept are now all accepted.
2095 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2097 Better display of output from failed tests
2099 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2100 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2102 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2103 ========================
2105 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2106 detailed release notes this time!
2108 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2109 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2111 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2112 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2113 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2114 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2121 Better guessing of From: header
2123 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2124 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2125 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2126 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2127 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2130 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2132 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2133 guaranteed to match all messages.
2135 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2137 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2138 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2139 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2140 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2141 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2144 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2147 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2148 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2149 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2150 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2155 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2157 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2158 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2159 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2160 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2162 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2164 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2166 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2167 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2168 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2170 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2172 Previously, the user might see:
2174 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2178 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2180 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2181 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2182 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2183 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2185 Emacs client features
2186 ---------------------
2188 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2190 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2191 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2192 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2193 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2194 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2196 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2199 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2200 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2201 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2202 search with the '*' binding.
2204 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2206 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2207 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2210 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2212 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2213 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2214 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2216 Build-system features
2217 ---------------------
2219 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2221 Add support to configure for many standard options
2223 We include actual support for:
2225 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2227 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2229 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2230 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2232 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2233 separate "make install-emacs"
2235 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2237 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2238 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2239 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2241 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2244 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2245 ========================
2247 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2249 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2250 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2252 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2253 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2254 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2255 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2256 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2257 tags from messages in a thread.
2264 indent-tabs-mode: nil