1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Date range search support
9 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
10 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
11 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
12 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
13 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
16 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
18 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
19 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
20 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
21 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
22 but may be removed in a future release.
24 Command-Line Interface
25 ----------------------
27 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
29 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
30 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
32 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
34 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
35 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
36 officially deprecated.
38 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
40 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
41 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
42 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
44 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
46 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
47 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
48 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
50 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
52 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
53 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
54 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
59 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
61 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
62 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
63 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
64 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
66 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
68 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
69 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
72 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
74 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
75 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
76 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
77 simply displayed in place of the message.
79 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
81 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
82 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
84 Improved text/calendar content handling
86 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
87 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
88 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
89 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
91 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
93 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
94 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
95 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
96 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
98 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
100 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
101 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
102 for HTML email containing images.
104 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
106 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
108 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
110 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
113 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
114 -----------------------------
116 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
117 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
118 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
119 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
120 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
121 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
122 further details and installation.
127 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
129 Internal test framework changes
130 -------------------------------
132 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
134 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
135 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
136 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
137 can result in buggy behavior.
139 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
140 =========================
145 Maildir tag synchronization
147 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
148 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
149 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
150 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
151 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
152 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
155 Command-Line Interface
156 ----------------------
158 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
159 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
160 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
161 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
162 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
168 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
170 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
172 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
173 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
174 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
176 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
178 It is now possible to embed newlines in
179 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
182 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
184 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
185 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
186 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
187 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
188 inside the result or message.
190 Search now uses the JSON format internally
192 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
193 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
195 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
196 user-specified formatting
198 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
199 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
200 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
201 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
202 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
204 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
205 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
207 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
208 ===========================
213 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
214 compilation error for this contrib package.
216 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
217 ===========================
222 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
224 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
225 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
226 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
227 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
229 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
230 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
233 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
234 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
235 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
236 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
239 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
241 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
244 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
245 =========================
247 Command-Line Interface
248 ----------------------
252 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
253 for a reply message and full information about the original message
254 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
255 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
257 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
258 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
259 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
260 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
264 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
265 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
267 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
268 tag in your query, for example:
270 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
272 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
273 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
275 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
276 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
278 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
280 Raw show format changes
282 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
283 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
284 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
285 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
286 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
287 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
288 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
289 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
291 Listing configuration items
293 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
299 Changes to tagging interface
301 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
302 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
303 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
304 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
305 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
306 for more information.
308 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
309 may need to update in custom configurations.
311 Reply improvement using the JSON format
313 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
314 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
315 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
316 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
319 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
320 -----------------------------
322 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
323 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
324 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
325 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
326 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
327 contrib/ from now on.
332 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
333 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
335 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
336 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
338 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
339 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
340 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
342 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
343 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
345 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
346 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
347 returning the new database object or directory object.
354 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
355 compatible with go 1.
357 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
358 =========================
360 Command-Line Interface
361 ----------------------
365 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
366 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
367 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
368 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
370 Mail store folder/file ignore
372 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
373 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
374 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
376 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
377 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
379 Unified help and manual pages
381 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
382 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
385 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
387 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
388 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
396 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
397 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
398 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
399 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
401 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
403 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
404 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
406 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
409 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
410 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
411 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
413 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
415 should be changed to:
417 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
419 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
421 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
422 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
424 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
426 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
427 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
428 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
429 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
430 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
431 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
435 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
436 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
437 of Mailing List Archives.
439 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
441 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
442 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
445 Show view archiving key binding changes
447 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
448 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
449 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
450 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
451 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
454 Support text/calendar MIME type
456 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
459 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
461 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
462 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
463 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
464 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
466 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
468 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
469 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
470 messages blue by default in the search view.
474 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
475 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
482 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
485 Python bindings changes
486 -----------------------
488 Python 3.2 compatibility
490 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
492 Added missing unicode conversions
494 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
495 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
496 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
501 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
503 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
504 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
505 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
506 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
507 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
509 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
510 ===========================
515 Fix error handling in python bindings
517 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
518 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
519 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
520 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
522 Quote MML tags in replies
524 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
525 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
526 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
527 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
528 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
529 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
530 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
531 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
533 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
534 =========================
536 Command-Line Interface
537 ----------------------
541 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
542 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
543 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
544 importing new messages into the database.
546 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
548 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
549 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
550 sometimes. This is now fixed.
555 Automatic tag query optimization
557 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
558 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
559 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
561 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
563 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
564 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
565 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
570 Reduction of memory leaks
572 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
573 and fixed in this release.
580 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
581 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
582 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
585 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
587 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
588 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
589 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
592 Improvements in saved search management
594 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
595 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
596 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
598 Hooks for notmuch-hello
600 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
601 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
602 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
604 New face for crypto parts headers
606 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
607 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
608 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
611 Use space as default thousands separator
613 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
614 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
615 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
617 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
620 New function notmuch-show-advance
622 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
623 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
624 be bound to SPC with:
626 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
628 Various performance improvements
633 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
634 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
637 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
638 ===========================
643 Fix crash in python bindings
645 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
646 for some, but not all users.
648 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
649 ===========================
654 Fix `--help` argument
656 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
657 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
658 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
660 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
661 =========================
663 New build and testing features
664 ------------------------------
666 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
667 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
668 prerequisites is improved.
670 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
672 New command-line features
673 -------------------------
675 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
677 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
678 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
681 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
683 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
684 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
685 favour of using stdout.
687 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
689 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
690 limit the number of results shown.
692 Add `notmuch count --output` option
694 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
695 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
698 New emacs UI features
699 ---------------------
701 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
703 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
704 starting with "tag:".
706 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
708 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
709 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
711 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
713 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
715 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
717 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
718 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
723 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
725 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
727 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
728 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
729 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
730 requires a database rebuild:
732 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
733 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
735 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
737 New collection of add-on tools
738 ------------------------------
740 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
741 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
742 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
745 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
747 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
748 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
749 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
751 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
752 ========================
754 New, general features
755 ---------------------
757 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
759 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
760 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
761 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
762 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
763 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
770 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
771 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
773 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
777 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
778 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
779 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
782 Python bindings changes
783 -----------------------
785 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
787 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
788 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
789 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
790 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
791 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
792 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
794 Ruby bindings changes
795 ---------------------
797 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
798 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
799 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
800 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
805 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
807 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
808 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
810 Reply formatting cleanup
811 ------------------------
813 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
814 MIME parts are being suppressed.
816 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
817 ========================
819 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
821 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
822 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
823 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
824 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
827 Improved Build system portability
829 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
830 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
831 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
833 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
835 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
837 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
839 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
840 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
841 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
843 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
844 ========================
846 Vim interface improvements
847 --------------------------
849 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
851 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
852 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
853 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
854 * fix from list reformatting in search view
855 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
857 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
859 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
860 * fix compose temp file name
862 Python Bindings changes
863 -----------------------
865 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
867 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
868 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
870 Build-System improvements
871 -------------------------
873 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
875 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
878 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
879 ==========================
884 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
886 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
887 people running gcc 4.4.5.
889 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
890 =======================
892 New, general features
893 ---------------------
895 Folder-based searching
897 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
898 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
899 storage). The syntax is as follows:
903 For example, one might use things such as:
909 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
910 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
912 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
913 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
914 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
915 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
917 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
918 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
919 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
922 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
923 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
925 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
929 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
930 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
931 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
933 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
935 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
936 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
938 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
939 notmuch will receive these tags.
941 New command-line features
942 -------------------------
944 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
946 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
947 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
949 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
951 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
952 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
953 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
955 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
957 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
958 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
959 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
960 which parts a signature part applies).
962 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
964 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
965 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
966 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
967 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
968 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
971 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
973 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
974 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
975 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
976 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
977 by translating it internally to the new call.
979 Performance improvements
980 ------------------------
982 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
984 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
985 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
986 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
988 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
989 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
991 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
993 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
994 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
995 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
997 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
998 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
999 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1000 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1002 Faster initial indexing
1004 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1005 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1006 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1008 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1010 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1011 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1012 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1013 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1015 New emacs-interface features
1016 ----------------------------
1018 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1020 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1021 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1022 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1023 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1024 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1025 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1027 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1029 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1030 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1031 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1032 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1034 User-selectable From address
1036 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1037 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1038 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1039 will prompt for the from address to use.
1041 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1042 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1043 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1045 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1046 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1047 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1050 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1052 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1053 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1055 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1057 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1059 ----- Original Message -----
1061 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1062 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1063 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1064 citations work much like conventional citations.
1066 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1068 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1069 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1070 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1071 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1072 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1074 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1075 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1077 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1079 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1080 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1081 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1083 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1085 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1086 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1087 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1088 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1089 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1091 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1093 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1096 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1098 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1100 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1102 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1105 Vim interface improvements
1106 --------------------------
1108 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1110 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1111 * Implementing archive in show view
1112 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1113 * Add delete commands
1116 Bindings improvements
1117 ---------------------
1119 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1121 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1122 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1124 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1126 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1130 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1131 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1132 `list(Messages)` works now
1133 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1135 These allow, for example:
1137 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1139 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1141 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1147 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1149 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1152 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1154 New build-system features
1155 -------------------------
1157 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1159 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1160 the configure script from some other directory:
1167 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1169 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1170 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1171 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1172 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1173 manual invocation of configure.
1175 New test-suite feature
1176 ----------------------
1178 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1180 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1181 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1182 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1183 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1184 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1187 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1189 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1190 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1191 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1192 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1193 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1194 are updated to take advantage of this.
1196 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1198 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1199 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1200 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1201 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1207 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1209 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1210 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1211 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1213 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1215 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1217 to:user@elsewhere.com
1219 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1221 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1223 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1225 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1226 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1227 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1230 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1231 from the Received headers in some cases
1233 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1234 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1236 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1238 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1240 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1242 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1243 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1244 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1246 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1247 -------------------------
1249 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1251 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1252 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1253 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1255 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1257 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1258 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1259 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1262 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1264 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1265 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1266 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1267 fixed to avoid this bug.
1269 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1271 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1272 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1274 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1275 ========================
1277 New, general features
1278 ---------------------
1280 Maildir-flag synchronization
1282 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1283 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1292 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1294 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1295 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1296 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1297 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1299 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1300 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1301 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1302 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1305 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1307 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1308 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1309 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1311 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1312 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1314 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1315 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1317 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1318 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1319 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1321 New library features
1322 --------------------
1324 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1326 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1327 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1328 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1329 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1331 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1332 message with the new function:
1334 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1336 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1337 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1338 over all available filenames for a given message.
1340 New command-line features
1341 -------------------------
1343 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1345 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1346 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1347 access to the mail store itself.
1349 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1350 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1351 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1352 name of a script containing:
1354 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1356 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1357 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1363 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1365 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1367 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1369 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1370 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1371 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1372 now produces nothing).
1374 Emacs interface improvements
1375 ----------------------------
1377 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1379 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1381 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1383 Display current thread subject in a header line
1385 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1387 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1389 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1390 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1391 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1392 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1393 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1394 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1395 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1397 Vim interface improvements
1398 --------------------------
1400 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1402 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1403 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1409 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1411 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1412 ========================
1414 New command-line features
1415 -------------------------
1417 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1419 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1420 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1421 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1423 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1424 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1425 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1426 scripts. For example:
1428 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1429 <operations-on> "$file"
1432 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1434 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1435 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1436 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1437 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1438 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1439 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1441 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1443 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1444 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1445 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1446 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1448 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1450 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1451 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1452 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1453 default rather than Bcc.
1455 New library features
1456 --------------------
1458 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1460 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1461 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1466 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1468 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1469 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1470 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1471 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1472 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1473 notmuch customize interface.
1475 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1477 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1478 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1479 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1480 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1482 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1484 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1485 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1486 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1487 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1489 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1491 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1492 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1493 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1494 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1495 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1496 notmuch customize interface.
1498 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1500 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1501 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1502 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1503 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1504 notmuch customize interface.
1506 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1508 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1509 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1510 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1511 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1514 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1516 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1517 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1518 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1521 New build-system features
1522 -------------------------
1524 Various portability fixes have been applied
1526 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1527 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1528 more portable than ever before.
1530 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1532 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1533 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1534 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1536 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1537 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1538 automatically run ldconfig.
1540 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1541 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1542 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1544 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1545 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1546 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1547 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1549 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1551 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1552 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1553 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1554 used in the resulting Makefile.
1556 New test-suite features
1557 -----------------------
1559 New modularization of test suite
1561 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1562 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1563 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1564 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1565 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1566 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1567 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1568 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1570 New testing of emacs interface
1572 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1573 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1574 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1575 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1576 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1577 database via the FCC setting.
1582 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1584 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1585 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1586 persistent error of the form:
1588 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1590 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1591 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1593 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1595 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1596 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1597 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1599 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1601 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1602 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1603 parsing the notmuch results).
1605 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1607 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1610 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1611 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1612 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1617 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1619 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1620 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1621 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1622 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1623 the emacs interface.
1625 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1627 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1628 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1629 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1631 Python-binding fixes
1632 --------------------
1634 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1636 Debian-specific fixes
1637 ---------------------
1639 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1641 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1642 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1643 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1646 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1647 ==========================
1652 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1654 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1655 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1656 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1657 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1659 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1661 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1662 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1663 want notmuch to crash.
1668 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1670 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1671 directory does not exist
1676 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1678 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1679 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1681 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1682 ========================
1684 New command-line features
1685 -------------------------
1687 User-configurable tags for new messages
1689 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1690 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1691 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1692 to specify this value.
1694 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1696 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1697 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1698 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1700 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1702 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1703 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1705 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1707 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1708 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1709 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1710 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1711 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1714 Indication of author names that match a search
1716 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1717 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1718 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1719 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1720 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1721 messages in the thread are listed first.
1723 New: Python bindings
1724 --------------------
1726 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1727 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1728 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1729 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1731 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1732 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1733 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1736 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1737 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1738 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1740 Emacs interface improvements
1741 ----------------------------
1743 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1745 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1746 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1747 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1748 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1749 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1750 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1751 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1752 but without any of the disadvantages).
1754 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1755 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1756 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1759 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1760 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1761 instead running something like:
1763 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1765 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1766 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1767 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1770 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1772 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1773 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1774 tweaked by the user.
1776 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1777 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1778 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1781 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1782 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1783 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1786 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1788 This support currently relies on an external program,
1789 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1790 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1791 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1792 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1793 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1796 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1797 notmuch) is available via:
1799 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1801 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1802 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1803 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1805 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1807 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1808 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1809 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1810 making this automatic in a future release.
1812 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1814 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1815 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1816 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1817 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1818 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1819 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1822 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1824 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1825 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1826 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1828 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1830 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1831 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1832 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1834 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1835 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1836 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1837 other representation.
1839 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1840 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1843 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1845 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1846 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1847 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1849 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1850 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1851 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1853 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1855 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1856 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1857 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1858 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1859 to display the search result.
1861 More flexible handling of header visibility
1863 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1864 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1865 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1866 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1867 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1868 with the 'h' keybinding.
1870 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1871 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1872 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1874 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1876 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1878 Customizable formatting of search results
1880 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1881 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1882 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1884 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1886 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1888 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1893 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1895 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1896 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1897 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1898 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1904 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1906 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1907 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1909 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1911 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1912 accept are now all accepted.
1917 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1919 Better display of output from failed tests
1921 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1922 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1924 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1925 ========================
1927 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1928 detailed release notes this time!
1930 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1931 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1933 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1934 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1935 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1936 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1943 Better guessing of From: header
1945 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1946 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1947 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1948 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1949 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1952 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1954 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1955 guaranteed to match all messages.
1957 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1959 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1960 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1961 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1962 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1963 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1966 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1969 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1970 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1971 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1972 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1977 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1979 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1980 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1981 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1982 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1984 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1986 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1988 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1989 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1990 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1992 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1994 Previously, the user might see:
1996 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2000 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2002 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2003 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2004 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2005 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2007 Emacs client features
2008 ---------------------
2010 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2012 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2013 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2014 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2015 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2016 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2018 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2021 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2022 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2023 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2024 search with the '*' binding.
2026 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2028 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2029 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2032 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2034 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2035 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2036 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2038 Build-system features
2039 ---------------------
2041 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2043 Add support to configure for many standard options
2045 We include actual support for:
2047 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2049 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2051 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2052 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2054 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2055 separate "make install-emacs"
2057 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2059 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2060 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2061 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2063 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2066 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2067 ========================
2069 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2071 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2072 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2074 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2075 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2076 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2077 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2078 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2079 tags from messages in a thread.
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