1 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2 ===========================
7 Fix error handling in python bindings.
9 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
10 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
11 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
12 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
14 Quote MML tags in replies
16 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
17 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
18 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
19 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
20 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
21 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
22 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
23 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
26 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
27 =========================
29 Command-Line Interface
30 ----------------------
34 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
35 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
36 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
37 importing new messages into the database.
39 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
41 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
42 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
43 sometimes. This is now fixed.
48 Automatic tag query optimization
50 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
51 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
52 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
54 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
56 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
57 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
58 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
63 Reduction of memory leaks
65 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
66 and fixed in this release.
73 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
74 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
75 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
78 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
80 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
81 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
82 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
85 Improvements in saved search management
87 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
88 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
89 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
91 Hooks for notmuch-hello
93 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
94 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
95 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
97 New face for crypto parts headers
99 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
100 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
101 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
104 Use space as default thousands separator
106 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
107 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
108 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
110 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
111 buttonized id: links.
113 New function notmuch-show-advance
115 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
116 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
117 be bound to SPC with:
119 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
121 Various performance improvements.
126 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
127 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
130 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
131 ===========================
136 Fix crash in python bindings.
138 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
139 for some, but not all users.
141 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
142 ===========================
149 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
150 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
153 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
154 =========================
156 New build and testing features
157 ------------------------------
159 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
160 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
161 prerequisites is improved.
163 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
165 New command-line features
166 -------------------------
168 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
170 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
171 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
174 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
176 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
177 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
178 favour of using stdout.
180 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
182 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
183 the number of results shown.
185 Add "notmuch count --output" option
187 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
188 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
190 New emacs UI features
191 ---------------------
193 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
195 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
196 starting with "tag:".
198 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
200 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
201 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
203 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
205 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
207 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
209 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
210 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
215 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
217 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
219 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
220 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
221 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
222 requires a database rebuild:
224 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
225 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
227 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
229 New collection of add-on tools
230 ------------------------------
232 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
233 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
234 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
237 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
239 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
240 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
241 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
243 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
244 ========================
246 New, general features
247 ---------------------
249 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
251 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
252 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
253 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
254 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
255 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
262 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
263 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
265 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
269 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
270 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
271 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
274 Python bindings changes
275 -----------------------
277 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
279 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
280 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
281 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
282 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
283 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
284 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
286 Ruby bindings changes
287 ---------------------
289 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
290 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
291 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
292 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
297 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
299 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
300 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
302 Reply formatting cleanup
303 ------------------------
305 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
306 MIME parts are being suppressed.
308 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
309 ========================
311 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
313 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
314 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
315 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
316 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
319 Improved Build system portability
321 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
322 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
323 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
325 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
327 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
329 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
331 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
332 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
333 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
335 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
336 ========================
338 Vim interface improvements
339 --------------------------
341 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
343 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
344 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
345 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
346 * fix from list reformatting in search view
347 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
349 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
351 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
352 * fix compose temp file name
354 Python Bindings changes
355 -----------------------
357 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
359 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
360 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
362 Build-System improvements
363 ------------------------
365 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
367 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
370 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
371 ==========================
376 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
378 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
379 people running gcc 4.4.5.
381 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
382 =======================
383 New, general features
384 ---------------------
385 Folder-based searching
387 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
388 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
389 storage). The syntax is as follows:
393 For example, one might use things such as:
399 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
400 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
402 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
403 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
404 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
405 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
407 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
408 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
409 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
412 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
413 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
415 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
419 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
420 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
421 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
423 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
425 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
426 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
428 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
429 notmuch will receive these tags.
431 New command-line features
432 -------------------------
433 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
435 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
436 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
438 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
440 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
441 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
442 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
444 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
446 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
447 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
448 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
449 which parts a signature part applies).
451 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
453 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
454 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
455 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
456 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
457 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
460 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
462 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
463 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
464 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
465 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
466 by translating it internally to the new call.
468 Performance improvements
469 ------------------------
470 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
472 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
473 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
474 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
476 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
477 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
479 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
481 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
482 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
483 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
485 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
486 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
487 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
488 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
490 Faster initial indexing
492 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
493 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
494 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
496 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
498 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
499 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
500 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
501 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
503 New emacs-interface features
504 ----------------------------
506 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
508 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
509 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
510 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
511 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
512 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
513 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
515 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
517 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
518 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
519 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
520 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
522 User-selectable From address
524 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
525 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
526 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
527 will prompt for the from address to use.
529 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
530 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
531 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
533 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
534 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
535 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
538 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
540 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
541 its parent, the subject is not shown.
543 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
545 When a message contains a line looking something like:
547 ----- Original Message -----
549 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
550 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
551 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
552 citations work much like conventional citations.
554 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
556 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
557 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
558 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
559 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
560 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
562 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
563 Notmuch After Tag Hook
565 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
567 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
568 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
569 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
571 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
573 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
574 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
575 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
576 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
577 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
579 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
581 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
584 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
586 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
588 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
589 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
591 Vim interface improvements
592 --------------------------
593 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
595 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
596 * Implementing archive in show view
597 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
598 * Add delete commands
601 Bindings improvements
602 ---------------------
603 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
605 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
606 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
608 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
609 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
612 - Message().get_filenames(),
613 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
614 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
616 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
617 These allow, for example:
620 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
622 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
627 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
628 Use len(list(Messages())) or
629 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
631 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
633 New build-system features
634 -------------------------
635 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
637 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
638 the configure script from some other directory:
645 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
647 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
648 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
649 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
650 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
651 manual invocation of configure.
653 New test-suite feature
654 ----------------------
655 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
657 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
658 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
659 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
660 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
661 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
664 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
666 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
667 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
668 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
669 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
670 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
671 are updated to take advantage of this.
673 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
675 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
676 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
677 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
678 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
683 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
685 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
686 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
687 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
689 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
691 This fixed a bug where a search for:
693 to:user@elsewhere.com
695 would incorrectly match a message sent:
697 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
699 Fix --output=json when search has no results
701 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
702 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
703 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
706 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
707 from the Received headers in some cases.
709 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
710 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
712 Cleaned up several memory leaks
714 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
716 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
718 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
719 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
720 interface and were never intended to be exported.
722 Emacs-interface bug fixes
723 -------------------------
724 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
726 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
727 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
728 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
730 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
732 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
733 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
734 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
737 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
739 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
740 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
741 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
742 fixed to avoid this bug.
744 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
746 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
747 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
749 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
750 ========================
751 New, general features
752 ---------------------
753 Maildir-flag synchronization
755 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
756 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
765 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
767 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
768 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
769 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
770 renamed with an 'R' flag).
772 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
773 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
774 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
775 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
778 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
780 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
781 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
782 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
784 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
785 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
787 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
788 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
790 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
791 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
792 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
796 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
798 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
799 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
800 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
801 notmuch_message_get_filename).
803 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
804 message with the new function:
806 notmuch_message_get_filenames
808 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
809 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
810 all available filenames for a given message.
812 New command-line features
813 -------------------------
814 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
816 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
817 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
818 access to the mail store itself.
820 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
821 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
822 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
823 name of a script containing:
825 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
827 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
828 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
833 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
835 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
837 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
839 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
840 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
841 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
842 now produces nothing).
844 Emacs interface improvements
845 ----------------------------
846 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
848 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
850 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
852 Display current thread subject in a header line.
854 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
856 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
858 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
859 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
860 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
861 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
862 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
863 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
864 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
866 Vim interface improvements
867 --------------------------
868 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
870 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
871 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
876 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
878 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
879 ========================
880 New command-line features
881 -------------------------
882 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
884 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
885 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
886 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
888 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
889 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
890 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
891 scripts. For example:
893 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
894 <operations-on> "$file"
897 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
899 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
900 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
901 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
902 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
903 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
904 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
906 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
908 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
909 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
910 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
911 custom items stored in the configuration file.
913 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
915 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
916 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
917 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
918 default rather than Bcc.
922 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
924 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
925 notmuch_query_t object.
929 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
931 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
932 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
933 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
934 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
935 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
936 notmuch customize interface.
938 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
940 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
941 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
942 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
943 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
945 Optional support for detecting inline patches
947 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
948 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
949 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
950 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
952 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
954 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
955 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
956 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
957 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
958 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
959 notmuch customize interface.
961 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
963 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
964 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
965 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
966 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
967 notmuch customize interface.
969 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
971 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
972 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
973 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
974 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
977 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
979 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
980 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
981 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
984 New build-system features
985 -------------------------
986 Various portability fixes have been applied
988 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
989 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
990 more portable than ever before.
992 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
994 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
995 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
996 after installing. This support takes two forms:
998 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
999 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1000 automatically run ldconfig.
1002 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1003 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1004 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1006 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1007 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1008 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1009 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1011 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1013 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1014 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1015 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1016 used in the resulting Makefile.
1018 New test-suite features
1019 -----------------------
1020 New modularization of test suite.
1022 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1023 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1024 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1025 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1026 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1027 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1028 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1029 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1031 New testing of emacs interface.
1033 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1034 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1035 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1036 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1037 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1038 database via the FCC setting.
1042 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1044 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1045 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1046 persistent error of the form:
1048 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1050 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1051 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1053 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1055 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1056 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1057 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1059 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1061 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1062 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1063 parsing the notmuch results).
1065 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1067 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1069 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1070 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1071 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1075 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1077 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1078 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1079 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1080 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1081 the emacs interface.
1083 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1085 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1086 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1087 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1089 Python-binding fixes
1090 --------------------
1091 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1093 Debian-specific fixes
1094 ---------------------
1095 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1097 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1098 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1099 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1102 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1103 ==========================
1106 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1108 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1109 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1110 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1111 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1113 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1115 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1116 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1117 want notmuch to crash.
1121 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1123 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1124 directory does not exist.
1128 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1130 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1131 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1133 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1134 ========================
1135 New command-line features
1136 -------------------------
1137 User-configurable tags for new messages
1139 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1140 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1141 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1142 to specify this value.
1144 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1146 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1147 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1148 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1150 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1152 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1153 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1155 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1157 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1158 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1159 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1160 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1161 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1164 Indication of author names that match a search
1166 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1167 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1168 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1169 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1170 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1171 messages in the thread are listed first.
1173 New: Python bindings
1174 --------------------
1175 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1176 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1177 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1178 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1180 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1181 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1182 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1185 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1186 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1187 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1189 Emacs interface improvements
1190 ----------------------------
1191 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1193 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1194 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1195 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1196 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1197 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1198 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1199 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1200 but without any of the disadvantages).
1202 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1203 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1204 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1207 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1208 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1209 recommend instead running something like:
1211 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1213 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1214 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1215 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1218 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1220 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1221 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1222 tweaked by the user.
1224 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1225 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1226 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1229 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1230 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1231 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1234 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1236 This support currently relies on an external program,
1237 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1238 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1239 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1240 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1241 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1244 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1245 notmuch) is available via:
1247 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1249 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1250 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1251 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1253 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1255 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1256 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1257 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1258 making this automatic in a future release.
1260 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1262 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1263 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1264 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1265 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1266 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1267 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1270 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1272 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1273 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1274 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1276 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1278 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1279 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1280 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1282 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1283 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1284 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1285 other representation.
1287 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1288 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1291 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1293 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1294 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1295 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1297 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1298 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1299 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1301 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1303 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1304 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1305 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1306 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1307 to display the search result.
1309 More flexible handling of header visibility
1311 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1312 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1313 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1314 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1315 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1316 with the 'h' keybinding.
1318 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1319 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1320 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1322 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1324 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1326 Customizable formatting of search results
1328 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1329 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1330 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1332 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1334 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1336 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1340 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1342 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1343 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1344 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1345 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1350 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1352 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1353 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1355 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1357 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1358 accept are now all accepted.
1362 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1364 Better display of output from failed tests.
1366 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1367 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1369 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1370 ========================
1371 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1372 detailed release notes this time!
1374 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1375 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1377 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1378 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1379 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1380 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1386 Better guessing of From: header.
1388 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1389 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1390 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1391 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1392 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1395 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1397 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1398 guaranteed to match all messages.
1400 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1402 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1403 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1404 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1405 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1406 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1409 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1412 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1413 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1414 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1415 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1419 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1421 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1422 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1423 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1424 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1426 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1428 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1430 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1431 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1432 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1434 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1436 Previously, the user might see:
1438 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1442 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1444 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1445 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1446 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1447 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1449 Emacs client features
1450 ---------------------
1451 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1453 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1454 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1455 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1456 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1457 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1459 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1462 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1463 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1464 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1465 search with the '*' binding.
1467 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1469 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1470 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1473 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1475 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1476 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1477 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1479 Build-system features
1480 ---------------------
1481 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1483 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1485 We include actual support for:
1487 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1489 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1491 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1492 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1494 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1495 separate "make install-emacs".
1497 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1499 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1500 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1501 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1503 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1506 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1507 ========================
1508 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1510 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1511 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1513 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1514 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1515 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1516 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1517 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1518 tags from messages in a thread.