1 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
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 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
46 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
47 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
50 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
51 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
54 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
56 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
57 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
58 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
60 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
62 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
63 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
64 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
66 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
68 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
69 output separated by null characters rather than newline
70 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
71 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
76 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
78 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
79 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
80 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
81 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
83 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
85 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
86 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
87 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
88 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
89 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
90 the behavior of this, see
91 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
92 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
94 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
95 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
96 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
98 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
100 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
101 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
104 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
106 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
107 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
108 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
109 simply displayed in place of the message.
111 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
113 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
114 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
116 Improved text/calendar content handling
118 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
119 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
120 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
121 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
123 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
125 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
126 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
127 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
128 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
130 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
132 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
133 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
134 for HTML email containing images.
136 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
138 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
140 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
142 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
145 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
147 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
148 the point where it was.
150 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
152 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
153 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
154 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
155 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
156 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
158 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
160 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
161 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
162 thread instead of the message id.
164 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
165 -----------------------------
167 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
168 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
169 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
170 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
171 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
172 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
173 further details and installation.
178 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
180 Internal test framework changes
181 -------------------------------
183 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
185 The test framework now accepts TEST_EMACSCLIENT in addition to
186 TEST_EMACS for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
187 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
188 can result in buggy behavior.
190 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
191 =========================
196 Maildir tag synchronization
198 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
199 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
200 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
201 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
202 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
203 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
206 Command-Line Interface
207 ----------------------
209 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
210 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
211 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
212 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
213 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
219 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
221 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
223 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
224 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
225 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
227 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
229 It is now possible to embed newlines in
230 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
233 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
235 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
236 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
237 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
238 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
239 inside the result or message.
241 Search now uses the JSON format internally
243 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
244 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
246 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
247 user-specified formatting
249 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
250 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
251 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
252 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
253 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
255 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
256 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
258 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
259 ===========================
264 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
265 compilation error for this contrib package.
267 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
268 ===========================
273 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
275 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
276 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
277 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
278 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
280 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
281 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
284 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
285 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
286 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
287 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
290 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
292 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
295 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
296 =========================
298 Command-Line Interface
299 ----------------------
303 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
304 for a reply message and full information about the original message
305 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
306 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
308 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
309 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
310 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
311 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
315 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
316 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
318 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
319 tag in your query, for example:
321 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
323 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
324 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
326 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
327 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
329 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
331 Raw show format changes
333 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
334 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
335 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
336 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
337 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
338 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
339 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
340 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
342 Listing configuration items
344 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
350 Changes to tagging interface
352 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
353 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
354 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
355 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
356 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
357 for more information.
359 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
360 may need to update in custom configurations.
362 Reply improvement using the JSON format
364 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
365 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
366 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
367 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
370 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
371 -----------------------------
373 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
374 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
375 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
376 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
377 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
378 contrib/ from now on.
383 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
384 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
386 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
387 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
389 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
390 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
391 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
393 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
394 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
396 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
397 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
398 returning the new database object or directory object.
405 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
406 compatible with go 1.
408 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
409 =========================
411 Command-Line Interface
412 ----------------------
416 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
417 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
418 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
419 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
421 Mail store folder/file ignore
423 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
424 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
425 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
427 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
428 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
430 Unified help and manual pages
432 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
433 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
436 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
438 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
439 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
447 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
448 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
449 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
450 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
452 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
454 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
455 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
457 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
460 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
461 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
462 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
464 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
466 should be changed to:
468 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
470 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
472 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
473 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
475 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
477 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
478 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
479 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
480 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
481 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
482 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
486 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
487 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
488 of Mailing List Archives.
490 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
492 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
493 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
496 Show view archiving key binding changes
498 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
499 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
500 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
501 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
502 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
505 Support text/calendar MIME type
507 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
510 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
512 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
513 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
514 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
515 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
517 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
519 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
520 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
521 messages blue by default in the search view.
525 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
526 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
533 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
536 Python bindings changes
537 -----------------------
539 Python 3.2 compatibility
541 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
543 Added missing unicode conversions
545 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
546 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
547 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
552 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
554 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
555 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
556 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
557 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
558 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
560 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
561 ===========================
566 Fix error handling in python bindings
568 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
569 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
570 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
571 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
573 Quote MML tags in replies
575 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
576 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
577 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
578 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
579 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
580 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
581 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
582 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
584 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
585 =========================
587 Command-Line Interface
588 ----------------------
592 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
593 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
594 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
595 importing new messages into the database.
597 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
599 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
600 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
601 sometimes. This is now fixed.
606 Automatic tag query optimization
608 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
609 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
610 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
612 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
614 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
615 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
616 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
621 Reduction of memory leaks
623 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
624 and fixed in this release.
631 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
632 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
633 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
636 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
638 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
639 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
640 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
643 Improvements in saved search management
645 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
646 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
647 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
649 Hooks for notmuch-hello
651 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
652 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
653 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
655 New face for crypto parts headers
657 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
658 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
659 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
662 Use space as default thousands separator
664 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
665 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
666 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
668 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
671 New function notmuch-show-advance
673 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
674 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
675 be bound to SPC with:
677 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
679 Various performance improvements
684 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
685 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
688 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
689 ===========================
694 Fix crash in python bindings
696 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
697 for some, but not all users.
699 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
700 ===========================
705 Fix `--help` argument
707 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
708 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
709 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
711 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
712 =========================
714 New build and testing features
715 ------------------------------
717 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
718 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
719 prerequisites is improved.
721 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
723 New command-line features
724 -------------------------
726 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
728 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
729 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
732 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
734 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
735 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
736 favour of using stdout.
738 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
740 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
741 limit the number of results shown.
743 Add `notmuch count --output` option
745 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
746 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
749 New emacs UI features
750 ---------------------
752 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
754 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
755 starting with "tag:".
757 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
759 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
760 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
762 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
764 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
766 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
768 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
769 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
774 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
776 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
778 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
779 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
780 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
781 requires a database rebuild:
783 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
784 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
786 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
788 New collection of add-on tools
789 ------------------------------
791 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
792 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
793 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
796 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
798 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
799 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
800 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
802 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
803 ========================
805 New, general features
806 ---------------------
808 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
810 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
811 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
812 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
813 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
814 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
821 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
822 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
824 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
828 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
829 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
830 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
833 Python bindings changes
834 -----------------------
836 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
838 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
839 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
840 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
841 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
842 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
843 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
845 Ruby bindings changes
846 ---------------------
848 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
849 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
850 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
851 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
856 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
858 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
859 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
861 Reply formatting cleanup
862 ------------------------
864 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
865 MIME parts are being suppressed.
867 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
868 ========================
870 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
872 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
873 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
874 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
875 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
878 Improved Build system portability
880 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
881 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
882 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
884 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
886 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
888 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
890 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
891 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
892 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
894 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
895 ========================
897 Vim interface improvements
898 --------------------------
900 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
902 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
903 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
904 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
905 * fix from list reformatting in search view
906 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
908 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
910 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
911 * fix compose temp file name
913 Python Bindings changes
914 -----------------------
916 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
918 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
919 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
921 Build-System improvements
922 -------------------------
924 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
926 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
929 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
930 ==========================
935 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
937 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
938 people running gcc 4.4.5.
940 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
941 =======================
943 New, general features
944 ---------------------
946 Folder-based searching
948 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
949 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
950 storage). The syntax is as follows:
954 For example, one might use things such as:
960 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
961 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
963 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
964 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
965 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
966 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
968 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
969 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
970 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
973 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
974 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
976 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
980 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
981 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
982 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
984 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
986 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
987 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
989 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
990 notmuch will receive these tags.
992 New command-line features
993 -------------------------
995 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
997 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
998 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1000 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1002 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1003 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1004 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1006 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1008 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1009 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1010 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1011 which parts a signature part applies).
1013 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1015 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1016 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1017 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1018 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1019 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1022 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1024 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1025 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1026 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1027 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1028 by translating it internally to the new call.
1030 Performance improvements
1031 ------------------------
1033 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1035 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1036 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1037 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1039 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1040 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1042 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1044 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1045 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1046 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1048 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1049 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1050 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1051 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1053 Faster initial indexing
1055 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1056 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1057 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1059 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1061 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1062 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1063 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1064 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1066 New emacs-interface features
1067 ----------------------------
1069 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1071 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1072 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1073 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1074 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1075 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1076 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1078 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1080 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1081 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1082 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1083 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1085 User-selectable From address
1087 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1088 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1089 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1090 will prompt for the from address to use.
1092 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1093 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1094 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1096 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1097 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1098 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1101 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1103 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1104 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1106 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1108 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1110 ----- Original Message -----
1112 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1113 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1114 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1115 citations work much like conventional citations.
1117 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1119 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1120 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1121 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1122 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1123 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1125 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1126 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1128 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1130 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1131 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1132 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1134 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1136 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1137 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1138 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1139 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1140 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1142 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1144 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1147 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1149 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1151 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1153 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1156 Vim interface improvements
1157 --------------------------
1159 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1161 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1162 * Implementing archive in show view
1163 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1164 * Add delete commands
1167 Bindings improvements
1168 ---------------------
1170 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1172 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1173 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1175 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1177 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1181 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1182 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1183 `list(Messages)` works now
1184 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1186 These allow, for example:
1188 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1190 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1192 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1198 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1200 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1203 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1205 New build-system features
1206 -------------------------
1208 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1210 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1211 the configure script from some other directory:
1218 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1220 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1221 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1222 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1223 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1224 manual invocation of configure.
1226 New test-suite feature
1227 ----------------------
1229 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1231 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1232 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1233 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1234 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1235 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1238 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1240 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1241 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1242 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1243 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1244 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1245 are updated to take advantage of this.
1247 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1249 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1250 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1251 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1252 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1258 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1260 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1261 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1262 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1264 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1266 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1268 to:user@elsewhere.com
1270 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1272 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1274 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1276 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1277 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1278 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1281 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1282 from the Received headers in some cases
1284 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1285 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1287 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1289 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1291 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1293 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1294 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1295 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1297 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1298 -------------------------
1300 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1302 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1303 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1304 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1306 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1308 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1309 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1310 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1313 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1315 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1316 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1317 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1318 fixed to avoid this bug.
1320 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1322 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1323 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1325 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1326 ========================
1328 New, general features
1329 ---------------------
1331 Maildir-flag synchronization
1333 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1334 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1343 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1345 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1346 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1347 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1348 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1350 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1351 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1352 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1353 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1356 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1358 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1359 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1360 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1362 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1363 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1365 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1366 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1368 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1369 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1370 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1372 New library features
1373 --------------------
1375 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1377 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1378 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1379 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1380 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1382 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1383 message with the new function:
1385 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1387 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1388 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1389 over all available filenames for a given message.
1391 New command-line features
1392 -------------------------
1394 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1396 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1397 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1398 access to the mail store itself.
1400 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1401 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1402 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1403 name of a script containing:
1405 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1407 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1408 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1414 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1416 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1418 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1420 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1421 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1422 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1423 now produces nothing).
1425 Emacs interface improvements
1426 ----------------------------
1428 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1430 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1432 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1434 Display current thread subject in a header line
1436 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1438 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1440 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1441 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1442 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1443 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1444 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1445 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1446 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1448 Vim interface improvements
1449 --------------------------
1451 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1453 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1454 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1460 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1462 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1463 ========================
1465 New command-line features
1466 -------------------------
1468 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1470 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1471 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1472 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1474 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1475 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1476 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1477 scripts. For example:
1479 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1480 <operations-on> "$file"
1483 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1485 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1486 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1487 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1488 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1489 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1490 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1492 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1494 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1495 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1496 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1497 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1499 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1501 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1502 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1503 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1504 default rather than Bcc.
1506 New library features
1507 --------------------
1509 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1511 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1512 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1517 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1519 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1520 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1521 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1522 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1523 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1524 notmuch customize interface.
1526 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1528 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1529 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1530 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1531 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1533 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1535 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1536 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1537 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1538 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1540 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1542 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1543 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1544 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1545 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1546 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1547 notmuch customize interface.
1549 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1551 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1552 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1553 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1554 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1555 notmuch customize interface.
1557 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1559 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1560 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1561 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1562 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1565 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1567 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1568 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1569 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1572 New build-system features
1573 -------------------------
1575 Various portability fixes have been applied
1577 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1578 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1579 more portable than ever before.
1581 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1583 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1584 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1585 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1587 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1588 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1589 automatically run ldconfig.
1591 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1592 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1593 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1595 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1596 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1597 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1598 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1600 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1602 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1603 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1604 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1605 used in the resulting Makefile.
1607 New test-suite features
1608 -----------------------
1610 New modularization of test suite
1612 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1613 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1614 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1615 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1616 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1617 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1618 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1619 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1621 New testing of emacs interface
1623 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1624 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1625 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1626 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1627 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1628 database via the FCC setting.
1633 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1635 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1636 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1637 persistent error of the form:
1639 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1641 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1642 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1644 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1646 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1647 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1648 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1650 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1652 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1653 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1654 parsing the notmuch results).
1656 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1658 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1661 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1662 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1663 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1668 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1670 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1671 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1672 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1673 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1674 the emacs interface.
1676 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1678 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1679 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1680 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1682 Python-binding fixes
1683 --------------------
1685 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1687 Debian-specific fixes
1688 ---------------------
1690 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1692 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1693 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1694 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1697 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1698 ==========================
1703 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1705 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1706 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1707 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1708 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1710 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1712 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1713 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1714 want notmuch to crash.
1719 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1721 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1722 directory does not exist
1727 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1729 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1730 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1732 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1733 ========================
1735 New command-line features
1736 -------------------------
1738 User-configurable tags for new messages
1740 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1741 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1742 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1743 to specify this value.
1745 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1747 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1748 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1749 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1751 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1753 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1754 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1756 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1758 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1759 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1760 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1761 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1762 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1765 Indication of author names that match a search
1767 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1768 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1769 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1770 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1771 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1772 messages in the thread are listed first.
1774 New: Python bindings
1775 --------------------
1777 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1778 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1779 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1780 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1782 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1783 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1784 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1787 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1788 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1789 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1791 Emacs interface improvements
1792 ----------------------------
1794 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1796 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1797 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1798 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1799 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1800 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1801 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1802 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1803 but without any of the disadvantages).
1805 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1806 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1807 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1810 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1811 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1812 instead running something like:
1814 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1816 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1817 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1818 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1821 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1823 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1824 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1825 tweaked by the user.
1827 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1828 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1829 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1832 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1833 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1834 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1837 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1839 This support currently relies on an external program,
1840 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1841 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1842 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1843 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1844 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1847 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1848 notmuch) is available via:
1850 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1852 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1853 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1854 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1856 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1858 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1859 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1860 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1861 making this automatic in a future release.
1863 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1865 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1866 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1867 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1868 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1869 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1870 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1873 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1875 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1876 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1877 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1879 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1881 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1882 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1883 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1885 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1886 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1887 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1888 other representation.
1890 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1891 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1894 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1896 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1897 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1898 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1900 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1901 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1902 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1904 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1906 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1907 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1908 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1909 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1910 to display the search result.
1912 More flexible handling of header visibility
1914 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1915 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1916 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1917 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1918 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1919 with the 'h' keybinding.
1921 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1922 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1923 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1925 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1927 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1929 Customizable formatting of search results
1931 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1932 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1933 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1935 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1937 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1939 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1944 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1946 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1947 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1948 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1949 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1955 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1957 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1958 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1960 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1962 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1963 accept are now all accepted.
1968 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1970 Better display of output from failed tests
1972 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1973 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1975 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1976 ========================
1978 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1979 detailed release notes this time!
1981 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1982 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1984 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1985 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1986 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1987 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1994 Better guessing of From: header
1996 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1997 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1998 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1999 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2000 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2003 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2005 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2006 guaranteed to match all messages.
2008 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2010 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2011 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2012 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2013 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2014 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2017 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2020 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2021 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2022 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2023 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2028 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2030 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2031 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2032 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2033 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2035 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2037 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2039 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2040 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2041 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2043 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2045 Previously, the user might see:
2047 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2051 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2053 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2054 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2055 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2056 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2058 Emacs client features
2059 ---------------------
2061 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2063 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2064 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2065 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2066 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2067 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2069 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2072 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2073 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2074 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2075 search with the '*' binding.
2077 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2079 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2080 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2083 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2085 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2086 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2087 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2089 Build-system features
2090 ---------------------
2092 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2094 Add support to configure for many standard options
2096 We include actual support for:
2098 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2100 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2102 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2103 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2105 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2106 separate "make install-emacs"
2108 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2110 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2111 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2112 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2114 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2117 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2118 ========================
2120 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2122 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2123 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2125 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2126 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2127 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2128 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2129 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2130 tags from messages in a thread.
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