1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
9 Bash command-line completion
11 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
12 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
13 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
14 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
15 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
16 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
17 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
18 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
19 bash-completion package.
24 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
25 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
26 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
27 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
28 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
35 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
36 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
37 in question was now removed from this release.
39 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
40 ===========================
45 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
47 Internal test framework changes
48 -------------------------------
50 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
53 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
54 ===========================
56 Internal test framework changes
57 -------------------------------
59 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
60 build failures in non-interactive environments.
62 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
63 =========================
68 Date range search support
70 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
71 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
72 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
73 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
74 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
77 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
79 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
80 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
81 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
82 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
83 but may be removed in a future release.
85 Command-Line Interface
86 ----------------------
88 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
90 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
91 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
93 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
95 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
96 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
97 officially deprecated.
99 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
101 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
102 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
103 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
105 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
107 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
108 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
111 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
112 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
115 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
117 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
118 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
119 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
121 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
123 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
124 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
125 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
127 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
129 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
130 output separated by null characters rather than newline
131 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
132 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
137 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
139 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
140 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
141 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
142 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
144 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
146 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
147 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
148 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
149 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
150 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
151 the behavior of this, see
152 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
153 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
155 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
156 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
157 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
159 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
161 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
162 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
165 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
167 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
168 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
169 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
170 simply displayed in place of the message.
172 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
174 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
175 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
177 Improved text/calendar content handling
179 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
180 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
181 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
182 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
184 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
186 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
187 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
188 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
189 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
191 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
193 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
194 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
195 for HTML email containing images.
197 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
199 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
201 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
203 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
206 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
208 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
209 the point where it was.
211 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
213 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
214 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
215 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
216 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
217 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
219 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
221 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
222 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
223 thread instead of the message id.
225 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
226 -----------------------------
228 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
229 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
230 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
231 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
232 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
233 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
234 further details and installation.
239 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
241 Internal test framework changes
242 -------------------------------
244 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
246 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
247 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
248 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
249 can result in buggy behavior.
251 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
252 =========================
257 Maildir tag synchronization
259 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
260 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
261 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
262 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
263 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
264 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
267 Command-Line Interface
268 ----------------------
270 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
271 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
272 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
273 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
274 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
280 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
282 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
284 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
285 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
286 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
288 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
290 It is now possible to embed newlines in
291 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
294 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
296 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
297 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
298 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
299 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
300 inside the result or message.
302 Search now uses the JSON format internally
304 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
305 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
307 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
308 user-specified formatting
310 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
311 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
312 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
313 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
314 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
316 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
317 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
319 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
320 ===========================
325 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
326 compilation error for this contrib package.
328 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
329 ===========================
334 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
336 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
337 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
338 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
339 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
341 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
342 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
345 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
346 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
347 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
348 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
351 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
353 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
356 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
357 =========================
359 Command-Line Interface
360 ----------------------
364 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
365 for a reply message and full information about the original message
366 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
367 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
369 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
370 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
371 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
372 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
376 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
377 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
379 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
380 tag in your query, for example:
382 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
384 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
385 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
387 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
388 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
390 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
392 Raw show format changes
394 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
395 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
396 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
397 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
398 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
399 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
400 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
401 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
403 Listing configuration items
405 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
411 Changes to tagging interface
413 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
414 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
415 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
416 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
417 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
418 for more information.
420 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
421 may need to update in custom configurations.
423 Reply improvement using the JSON format
425 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
426 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
427 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
428 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
431 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
432 -----------------------------
434 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
435 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
436 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
437 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
438 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
439 contrib/ from now on.
444 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
445 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
447 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
448 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
450 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
451 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
452 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
454 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
455 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
457 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
458 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
459 returning the new database object or directory object.
466 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
467 compatible with go 1.
469 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
470 =========================
472 Command-Line Interface
473 ----------------------
477 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
478 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
479 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
480 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
482 Mail store folder/file ignore
484 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
485 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
486 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
488 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
489 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
491 Unified help and manual pages
493 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
494 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
497 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
499 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
500 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
508 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
509 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
510 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
511 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
513 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
515 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
516 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
518 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
521 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
522 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
523 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
525 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
527 should be changed to:
529 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
531 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
533 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
534 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
536 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
538 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
539 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
540 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
541 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
542 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
543 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
547 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
548 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
549 of Mailing List Archives.
551 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
553 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
554 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
557 Show view archiving key binding changes
559 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
560 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
561 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
562 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
563 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
566 Support text/calendar MIME type
568 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
571 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
573 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
574 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
575 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
576 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
578 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
580 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
581 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
582 messages blue by default in the search view.
586 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
587 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
594 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
597 Python bindings changes
598 -----------------------
600 Python 3.2 compatibility
602 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
604 Added missing unicode conversions
606 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
607 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
608 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
613 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
615 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
616 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
617 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
618 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
619 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
621 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
622 ===========================
627 Fix error handling in python bindings
629 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
630 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
631 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
632 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
634 Quote MML tags in replies
636 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
637 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
638 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
639 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
640 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
641 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
642 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
643 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
645 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
646 =========================
648 Command-Line Interface
649 ----------------------
653 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
654 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
655 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
656 importing new messages into the database.
658 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
660 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
661 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
662 sometimes. This is now fixed.
667 Automatic tag query optimization
669 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
670 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
671 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
673 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
675 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
676 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
677 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
682 Reduction of memory leaks
684 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
685 and fixed in this release.
692 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
693 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
694 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
697 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
699 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
700 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
701 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
704 Improvements in saved search management
706 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
707 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
708 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
710 Hooks for notmuch-hello
712 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
713 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
714 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
716 New face for crypto parts headers
718 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
719 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
720 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
723 Use space as default thousands separator
725 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
726 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
727 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
729 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
732 New function notmuch-show-advance
734 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
735 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
736 be bound to SPC with:
738 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
740 Various performance improvements
745 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
746 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
749 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
750 ===========================
755 Fix crash in python bindings
757 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
758 for some, but not all users.
760 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
761 ===========================
766 Fix `--help` argument
768 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
769 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
770 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
772 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
773 =========================
775 New build and testing features
776 ------------------------------
778 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
779 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
780 prerequisites is improved.
782 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
784 New command-line features
785 -------------------------
787 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
789 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
790 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
793 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
795 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
796 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
797 favour of using stdout.
799 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
801 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
802 limit the number of results shown.
804 Add `notmuch count --output` option
806 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
807 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
810 New emacs UI features
811 ---------------------
813 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
815 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
816 starting with "tag:".
818 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
820 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
821 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
823 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
825 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
827 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
829 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
830 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
835 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
837 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
839 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
840 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
841 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
842 requires a database rebuild:
844 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
845 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
847 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
849 New collection of add-on tools
850 ------------------------------
852 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
853 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
854 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
857 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
859 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
860 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
861 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
863 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
864 ========================
866 New, general features
867 ---------------------
869 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
871 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
872 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
873 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
874 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
875 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
882 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
883 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
885 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
889 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
890 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
891 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
894 Python bindings changes
895 -----------------------
897 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
899 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
900 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
901 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
902 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
903 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
904 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
906 Ruby bindings changes
907 ---------------------
909 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
910 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
911 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
912 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
917 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
919 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
920 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
922 Reply formatting cleanup
923 ------------------------
925 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
926 MIME parts are being suppressed.
928 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
929 ========================
931 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
933 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
934 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
935 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
936 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
939 Improved Build system portability
941 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
942 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
943 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
945 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
947 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
949 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
951 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
952 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
953 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
955 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
956 ========================
958 Vim interface improvements
959 --------------------------
961 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
963 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
964 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
965 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
966 * fix from list reformatting in search view
967 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
969 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
971 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
972 * fix compose temp file name
974 Python Bindings changes
975 -----------------------
977 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
979 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
980 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
982 Build-System improvements
983 -------------------------
985 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
987 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
990 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
991 ==========================
996 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
998 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
999 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1001 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1002 =======================
1004 New, general features
1005 ---------------------
1007 Folder-based searching
1009 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1010 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1011 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1015 For example, one might use things such as:
1021 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1022 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1024 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1025 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1026 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1027 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1029 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1030 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1031 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1034 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1035 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1037 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1039 Support for PGP/MIME
1041 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1042 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1043 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1045 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1047 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1048 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1050 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1051 notmuch will receive these tags.
1053 New command-line features
1054 -------------------------
1056 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1058 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1059 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1061 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1063 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1064 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1065 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1067 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1069 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1070 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1071 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1072 which parts a signature part applies).
1074 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1076 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1077 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1078 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1079 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1080 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1083 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1085 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1086 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1087 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1088 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1089 by translating it internally to the new call.
1091 Performance improvements
1092 ------------------------
1094 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1096 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1097 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1098 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1100 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1101 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1103 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1105 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1106 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1107 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1109 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1110 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1111 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1112 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1114 Faster initial indexing
1116 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1117 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1118 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1120 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1122 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1123 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1124 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1125 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1127 New emacs-interface features
1128 ----------------------------
1130 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1132 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1133 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1134 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1135 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1136 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1137 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1139 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1141 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1142 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1143 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1144 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1146 User-selectable From address
1148 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1149 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1150 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1151 will prompt for the from address to use.
1153 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1154 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1155 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1157 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1158 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1159 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1162 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1164 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1165 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1167 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1169 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1171 ----- Original Message -----
1173 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1174 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1175 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1176 citations work much like conventional citations.
1178 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1180 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1181 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1182 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1183 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1184 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1186 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1187 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1189 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1191 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1192 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1193 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1195 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1197 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1198 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1199 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1200 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1201 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1203 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1205 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1208 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1210 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1212 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1214 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1217 Vim interface improvements
1218 --------------------------
1220 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1222 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1223 * Implementing archive in show view
1224 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1225 * Add delete commands
1228 Bindings improvements
1229 ---------------------
1231 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1233 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1234 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1236 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1238 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1242 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1243 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1244 `list(Messages)` works now
1245 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1247 These allow, for example:
1249 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1251 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1253 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1259 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1261 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1264 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1266 New build-system features
1267 -------------------------
1269 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1271 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1272 the configure script from some other directory:
1279 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1281 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1282 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1283 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1284 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1285 manual invocation of configure.
1287 New test-suite feature
1288 ----------------------
1290 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1292 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1293 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1294 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1295 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1296 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1299 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1301 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1302 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1303 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1304 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1305 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1306 are updated to take advantage of this.
1308 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1310 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1311 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1312 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1313 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1319 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1321 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1322 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1323 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1325 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1327 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1329 to:user@elsewhere.com
1331 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1333 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1335 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1337 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1338 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1339 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1342 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1343 from the Received headers in some cases
1345 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1346 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1348 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1350 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1352 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1354 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1355 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1356 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1358 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1359 -------------------------
1361 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1363 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1364 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1365 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1367 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1369 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1370 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1371 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1374 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1376 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1377 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1378 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1379 fixed to avoid this bug.
1381 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1383 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1384 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1386 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1387 ========================
1389 New, general features
1390 ---------------------
1392 Maildir-flag synchronization
1394 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1395 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1404 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1406 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1407 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1408 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1409 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1411 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1412 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1413 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1414 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1417 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1419 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1420 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1421 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1423 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1424 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1426 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1427 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1429 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1430 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1431 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1433 New library features
1434 --------------------
1436 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1438 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1439 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1440 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1441 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1443 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1444 message with the new function:
1446 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1448 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1449 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1450 over all available filenames for a given message.
1452 New command-line features
1453 -------------------------
1455 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1457 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1458 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1459 access to the mail store itself.
1461 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1462 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1463 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1464 name of a script containing:
1466 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1468 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1469 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1475 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1477 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1479 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1481 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1482 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1483 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1484 now produces nothing).
1486 Emacs interface improvements
1487 ----------------------------
1489 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1491 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1493 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1495 Display current thread subject in a header line
1497 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1499 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1501 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1502 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1503 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1504 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1505 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1506 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1507 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1509 Vim interface improvements
1510 --------------------------
1512 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1514 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1515 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1521 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1523 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1524 ========================
1526 New command-line features
1527 -------------------------
1529 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1531 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1532 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1533 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1535 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1536 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1537 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1538 scripts. For example:
1540 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1541 <operations-on> "$file"
1544 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1546 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1547 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1548 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1549 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1550 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1551 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1553 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1555 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1556 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1557 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1558 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1560 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1562 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1563 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1564 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1565 default rather than Bcc.
1567 New library features
1568 --------------------
1570 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1572 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1573 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1578 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1580 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1581 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1582 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1583 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1584 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1585 notmuch customize interface.
1587 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1589 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1590 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1591 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1592 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1594 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1596 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1597 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1598 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1599 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1601 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1603 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1604 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1605 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1606 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1607 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1608 notmuch customize interface.
1610 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1612 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1613 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1614 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1615 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1616 notmuch customize interface.
1618 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1620 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1621 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1622 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1623 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1626 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1628 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1629 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1630 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1633 New build-system features
1634 -------------------------
1636 Various portability fixes have been applied
1638 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1639 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1640 more portable than ever before.
1642 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1644 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1645 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1646 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1648 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1649 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1650 automatically run ldconfig.
1652 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1653 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1654 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1656 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1657 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1658 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1659 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1661 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1663 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1664 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1665 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1666 used in the resulting Makefile.
1668 New test-suite features
1669 -----------------------
1671 New modularization of test suite
1673 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1674 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1675 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1676 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1677 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1678 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1679 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1680 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1682 New testing of emacs interface
1684 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1685 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1686 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1687 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1688 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1689 database via the FCC setting.
1694 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1696 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1697 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1698 persistent error of the form:
1700 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1702 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1703 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1705 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1707 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1708 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1709 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1711 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1713 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1714 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1715 parsing the notmuch results).
1717 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1719 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1722 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1723 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1724 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1729 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1731 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1732 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1733 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1734 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1735 the emacs interface.
1737 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1739 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1740 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1741 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1743 Python-binding fixes
1744 --------------------
1746 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1748 Debian-specific fixes
1749 ---------------------
1751 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1753 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1754 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1755 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1758 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1759 ==========================
1764 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1766 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1767 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1768 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1769 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1771 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1773 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1774 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1775 want notmuch to crash.
1780 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1782 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1783 directory does not exist
1788 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1790 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1791 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1793 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1794 ========================
1796 New command-line features
1797 -------------------------
1799 User-configurable tags for new messages
1801 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1802 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1803 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1804 to specify this value.
1806 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1808 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1809 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1810 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1812 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1814 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1815 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1817 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1819 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1820 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1821 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1822 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1823 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1826 Indication of author names that match a search
1828 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1829 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1830 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1831 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1832 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1833 messages in the thread are listed first.
1835 New: Python bindings
1836 --------------------
1838 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1839 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1840 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1841 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1843 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1844 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1845 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1848 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1849 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1850 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1852 Emacs interface improvements
1853 ----------------------------
1855 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1857 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1858 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1859 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1860 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1861 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1862 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1863 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1864 but without any of the disadvantages).
1866 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1867 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1868 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1871 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1872 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1873 instead running something like:
1875 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1877 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1878 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1879 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1882 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1884 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1885 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1886 tweaked by the user.
1888 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1889 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1890 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1893 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1894 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1895 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1898 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1900 This support currently relies on an external program,
1901 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1902 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1903 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1904 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1905 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1908 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1909 notmuch) is available via:
1911 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1913 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1914 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1915 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1917 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1919 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1920 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1921 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1922 making this automatic in a future release.
1924 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1926 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1927 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1928 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1929 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1930 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1931 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1934 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1936 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1937 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1938 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1940 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1942 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1943 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1944 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1946 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1947 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1948 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1949 other representation.
1951 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1952 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1955 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1957 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1958 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1959 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1961 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1962 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1963 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1965 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1967 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1968 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1969 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1970 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1971 to display the search result.
1973 More flexible handling of header visibility
1975 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1976 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1977 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1978 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1979 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1980 with the 'h' keybinding.
1982 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1983 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1984 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1986 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1988 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1990 Customizable formatting of search results
1992 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1993 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1994 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1996 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1998 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2000 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2005 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2007 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2008 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2009 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2010 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2016 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2018 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2019 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2021 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2023 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2024 accept are now all accepted.
2029 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2031 Better display of output from failed tests
2033 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2034 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2036 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2037 ========================
2039 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2040 detailed release notes this time!
2042 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2043 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2045 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2046 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2047 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2048 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2055 Better guessing of From: header
2057 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2058 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2059 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2060 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2061 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2064 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2066 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2067 guaranteed to match all messages.
2069 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2071 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2072 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2073 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2074 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2075 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2078 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2081 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2082 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2083 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2084 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2089 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2091 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2092 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2093 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2094 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2096 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2098 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2100 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2101 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2102 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2104 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2106 Previously, the user might see:
2108 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2112 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2114 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2115 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2116 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2117 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2119 Emacs client features
2120 ---------------------
2122 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2124 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2125 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2126 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2127 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2128 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2130 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2133 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2134 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2135 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2136 search with the '*' binding.
2138 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2140 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2141 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2144 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2146 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2147 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2148 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2150 Build-system features
2151 ---------------------
2153 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2155 Add support to configure for many standard options
2157 We include actual support for:
2159 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2161 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2163 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2164 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2166 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2167 separate "make install-emacs"
2169 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2171 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2172 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2173 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2175 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2178 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2179 ========================
2181 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2183 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2184 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2186 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2187 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2188 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2189 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2190 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2191 tags from messages in a thread.
2198 indent-tabs-mode: nil