1 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2 ========================
7 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
9 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
10 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
11 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
12 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
13 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
20 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
21 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
23 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
25 Python bindings changes
26 -----------------------
28 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
30 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
31 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
32 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
33 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
34 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
39 Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic,
40 and add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError. Rename destroy
41 to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
46 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
48 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
49 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
51 Reply formatting cleanup
52 ------------------------
54 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
55 MIME parts are being suppressed.
57 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
58 ========================
60 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
62 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
63 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
64 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
65 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
68 Improved Build system portability
70 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
71 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
72 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
74 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
76 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
78 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
80 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
81 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
82 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
84 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
85 ========================
87 Vim interface improvements
88 --------------------------
90 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
92 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
93 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
94 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
95 * fix from list reformatting in search view
96 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
98 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
100 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
101 * fix compose temp file name
103 Python Bindings changes
104 -----------------------
106 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
108 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
109 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
111 Build-System improvments
112 ------------------------
114 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
116 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
119 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
120 ==========================
125 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
127 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
128 people running gcc 4.4.5.
130 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
131 =======================
132 New, general features
133 ---------------------
134 Folder-based searching
136 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
137 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
138 storage). The syntax is as follows:
142 For example, one might use things such as:
148 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
149 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
151 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
152 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
153 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
154 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
156 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
157 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
158 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
161 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
162 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
164 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
168 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
169 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
170 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
172 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
174 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
175 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
177 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
178 notmuch will receive these tags.
180 New command-line features
181 -------------------------
182 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
184 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
185 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
187 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
189 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
190 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
191 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
193 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
195 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
196 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
197 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
198 which parts a signature part applies).
200 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
202 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
203 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
204 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
205 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
206 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
209 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
211 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
212 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
213 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
214 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
215 by translating it internally to the new call.
217 Performance improvements
218 ------------------------
219 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
221 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
222 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
223 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
225 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
226 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
228 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
230 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
231 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
232 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
234 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
235 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
236 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
237 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
239 Faster initial indexing
241 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
242 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
243 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
245 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
247 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
248 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
249 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
250 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
252 New emacs-interface features
253 ----------------------------
255 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
257 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
258 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
259 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
260 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
261 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
262 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
264 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
266 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
267 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
268 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
269 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
271 User-selectable From address
273 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
274 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
275 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
276 will prompt for the from address to use.
278 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
279 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
280 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
282 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
283 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
284 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
287 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
289 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
290 its parent, the subject is not shown.
292 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
294 When a message contains a line looking something like:
296 ----- Original Message -----
298 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
299 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
300 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
301 citations work much like conventional citations.
303 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
305 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
306 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
307 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
308 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
309 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
311 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
312 Notmuch After Tag Hook
314 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
316 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
317 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
318 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
320 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
322 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
323 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
324 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
325 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
326 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
328 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
330 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
333 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
335 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
337 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
338 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
340 Vim interface improvements
341 --------------------------
342 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
344 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
345 * Implementing archive in show view
346 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
347 * Add delete commands
350 Bindings improvements
351 ---------------------
352 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
354 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
355 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
357 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
358 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
361 - Message().get_filenames(),
362 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
363 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
365 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
366 These allow, for example:
369 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
371 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
376 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
377 Use len(list(Messages())) or
378 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
380 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
382 New build-system features
383 -------------------------
384 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
386 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
387 the configure script from some other directory:
394 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
396 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
397 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
398 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
399 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
400 manual invocation of configure.
402 New test-suite feature
403 ----------------------
404 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
406 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
407 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
408 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
409 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
410 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
413 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
415 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
416 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
417 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
418 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
419 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
420 are updated to take advantage of this.
422 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
424 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
425 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
426 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
427 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
432 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
434 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
435 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
436 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
438 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
440 This fixed a bug where a search for:
442 to:user@elsewhere.com
444 would incorrectly match a message sent:
446 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
448 Fix --output=json when search has no results
450 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
451 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
452 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
455 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
456 from the Received headers in some cases.
458 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
459 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
461 Cleaned up several memory leaks
463 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
465 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
467 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
468 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
469 interface and were never intended to be exported.
471 Emacs-interface bug fixes
472 -------------------------
473 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
475 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
476 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
477 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
479 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
481 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
482 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
483 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
486 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
488 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
489 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
490 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
491 fixed to avoid this bug.
493 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
495 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
496 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
498 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
499 ========================
500 New, general features
501 ---------------------
502 Maildir-flag synchronization
504 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
505 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
514 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
516 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
517 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
518 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
519 renamed with an 'R' flag).
521 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
522 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
523 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
524 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
527 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
529 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
530 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
531 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
533 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
534 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
536 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
537 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
539 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
540 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
541 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
545 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
547 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
548 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
549 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
550 notmuch_message_get_filename).
552 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
553 message with the new function:
555 notmuch_message_get_filenames
557 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
558 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
559 all available filenames for a given message.
561 New command-line features
562 -------------------------
563 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
565 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
566 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
567 access to the mail store itself.
569 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
570 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
571 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
572 name of a script containing:
574 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
576 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
577 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
582 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
584 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
586 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
588 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
589 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
590 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
591 now produces nothing).
593 Emacs interface improvements
594 ----------------------------
595 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
597 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
599 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
601 Display current thread subject in a header line.
603 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
605 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
607 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
608 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
609 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
610 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
611 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
612 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
613 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
615 Vim interface improvements
616 --------------------------
617 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
619 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
620 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
625 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
627 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
628 ========================
629 New command-line features
630 -------------------------
631 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
633 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
634 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
635 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
637 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
638 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
639 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
640 scripts. For example:
642 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
643 <operations-on> "$file"
646 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
648 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
649 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
650 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
651 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
652 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
653 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
655 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
657 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
658 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
659 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
660 custom items stored in the configuration file.
662 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
664 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
665 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
666 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
667 default rather than Bcc.
671 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
673 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
674 notmuch_query_t object.
678 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
680 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
681 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
682 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
683 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
684 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
685 notmuch customize interface.
687 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
689 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
690 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
691 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
692 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
694 Optional support for detecting inline patches
696 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
697 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
698 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
699 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
701 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
703 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
704 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
705 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
706 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
707 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
708 notmuch customize interface.
710 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
712 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
713 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
714 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
715 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
716 notmuch customize interface.
718 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
720 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
721 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
722 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
723 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
726 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
728 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
729 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
730 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
733 New build-system features
734 -------------------------
735 Various portability fixes have been applied
737 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
738 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
739 more portable than ever before.
741 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
743 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
744 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
745 after installing. This support takes two forms:
747 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
748 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
749 automatically run ldconfig.
751 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
752 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
753 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
755 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
756 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
757 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
758 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
760 Check compiler/linker options before using them
762 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
763 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
764 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
765 used in the resulting Makefile.
767 New test-suite features
768 -----------------------
769 New modularization of test suite.
771 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
772 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
773 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
774 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
775 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
776 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
777 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
778 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
780 New testing of emacs interface.
782 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
783 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
784 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
785 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
786 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
787 database via the FCC setting.
791 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
793 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
794 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
795 persistent error of the form:
797 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
799 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
800 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
802 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
804 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
805 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
806 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
808 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
810 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
811 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
812 parsing the notmuch results).
814 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
816 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
818 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
819 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
820 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
824 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
826 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
827 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
828 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
829 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
832 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
834 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
835 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
836 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
840 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
842 Debian-specific fixes
843 ---------------------
844 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
846 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
847 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
848 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
851 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
852 ==========================
855 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
857 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
858 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
859 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
860 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
862 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
864 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
865 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
866 want notmuch to crash.
870 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
872 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
873 directory does not exist.
877 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
879 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
880 final linking of notmuch would fail.
882 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
883 ========================
884 New command-line features
885 -------------------------
886 User-configurable tags for new messages
888 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
889 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
890 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
891 to specify this value.
893 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
895 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
896 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
897 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
899 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
901 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
902 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
904 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
906 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
907 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
908 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
909 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
910 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
913 Indication of author names that match a search
915 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
916 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
917 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
918 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
919 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
920 messages in the thread are listed first.
924 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
925 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
926 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
927 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
929 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
930 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
931 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
934 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
935 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
936 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
938 Emacs interface improvements
939 ----------------------------
940 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
942 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
943 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
944 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
945 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
946 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
947 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
948 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
949 but without any of the disadvantages).
951 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
952 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
953 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
956 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
957 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
958 recommend instead running something like:
960 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
962 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
963 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
964 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
967 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
969 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
970 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
973 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
974 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
975 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
978 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
979 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
980 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
983 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
985 This support currently relies on an external program,
986 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
987 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
988 already been written that generate address completions by doing
989 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
990 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
993 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
994 notmuch) is available via:
996 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
998 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
999 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1000 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1002 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1004 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1005 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1006 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1007 making this automatic in a future release.
1009 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1011 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1012 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1013 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1014 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1015 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1016 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1019 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1021 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1022 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1023 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1025 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1027 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1028 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1029 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1031 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1032 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1033 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1034 other representation.
1036 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1037 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1040 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1042 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1043 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1044 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1046 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1047 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1048 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1050 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1052 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1053 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1054 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1055 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1056 to display the search result.
1058 More flexible handling of header visibility
1060 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1061 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1062 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1063 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1064 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1065 with the 'h' keybinding.
1067 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1068 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1069 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1071 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1073 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1075 Customizable formatting of search results
1077 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1078 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1079 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1081 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1083 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1085 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1089 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1091 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1092 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1093 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1094 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1099 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1101 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1102 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1104 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1106 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1107 accept are now all accepted.
1111 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1113 Better display of output from failed tests.
1115 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1116 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1118 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1119 ========================
1120 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1121 detailed release notes this time!
1123 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1124 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1126 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1127 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1128 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1129 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1135 Better guessing of From: header.
1137 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1138 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1139 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1140 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1141 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1144 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1146 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1147 guaranteed to match all messages.
1149 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1151 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1152 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1153 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1154 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1155 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1158 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1161 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1162 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1163 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1164 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1168 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1170 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1171 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1172 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1173 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1175 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1177 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1179 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1180 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1181 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1183 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1185 Previously, the user might see:
1187 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1191 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1193 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1194 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1195 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1196 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1198 Emacs client features
1199 ---------------------
1200 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1202 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1203 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1204 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1205 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1206 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1208 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1211 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1212 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1213 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1214 search with the '*' binding.
1216 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1218 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1219 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1222 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1224 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1225 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1226 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1228 Build-system features
1229 ---------------------
1230 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1232 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1234 We include actual support for:
1236 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1238 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1240 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1241 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1243 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1244 separate "make install-emacs".
1246 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1248 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1249 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1250 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1252 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1255 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1256 ========================
1257 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1259 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1260 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1262 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1263 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1264 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1265 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1266 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1267 tags from messages in a thread.