2 Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED)
3 =========================
8 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
10 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
11 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
12 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
13 print for each message.
15 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
16 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
17 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
18 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
21 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
22 =========================
24 Command-Line Interface
25 ----------------------
27 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
29 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
30 folder and notmuch index.
32 `notmuch count --batch` option
34 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
35 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
37 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
39 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
40 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
41 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
44 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
46 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
47 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
48 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
49 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
50 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
53 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
55 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
56 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
58 Top level option to specify configuration file
60 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
61 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
63 Bash command-line completion
65 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
66 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
67 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
68 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
69 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
70 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
71 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
72 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
73 bash-completion package.
75 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
80 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
82 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
83 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
84 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
85 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
86 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
87 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
88 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
89 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
91 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
93 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
94 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
95 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
97 Key bindings for next/previous thread
99 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
100 previous thread in the search results.
102 Better handling of errors in search buffers
104 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
105 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
107 Faster search and show
109 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
110 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
111 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
112 threads should show faster.
116 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
117 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
118 in question was now removed from this release.
123 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
124 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
129 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
131 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
132 ===========================
137 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
139 Internal test framework changes
140 -------------------------------
142 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
145 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
146 ===========================
148 Internal test framework changes
149 -------------------------------
151 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
152 build failures in non-interactive environments.
154 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
155 =========================
160 Date range search support
162 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
163 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
164 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
165 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
166 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
169 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
171 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
172 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
173 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
174 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
175 but may be removed in a future release.
177 Command-Line Interface
178 ----------------------
180 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
182 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
183 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
185 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
187 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
188 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
189 officially deprecated.
191 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
193 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
194 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
195 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
197 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
199 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
200 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
203 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
204 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
207 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
209 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
210 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
211 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
213 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
215 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
216 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
217 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
219 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
221 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
222 output separated by null characters rather than newline
223 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
224 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
229 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
231 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
232 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
233 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
234 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
236 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
238 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
239 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
240 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
241 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
242 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
243 the behavior of this, see
244 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
245 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
247 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
248 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
249 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
251 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
253 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
254 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
257 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
259 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
260 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
261 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
262 simply displayed in place of the message.
264 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
266 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
267 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
269 Improved text/calendar content handling
271 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
272 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
273 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
274 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
276 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
278 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
279 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
280 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
281 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
283 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
285 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
286 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
287 for HTML email containing images.
289 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
291 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
293 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
295 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
298 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
300 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
301 the point where it was.
303 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
305 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
306 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
307 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
308 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
309 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
311 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
313 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
314 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
315 thread instead of the message id.
317 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
318 -----------------------------
320 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
321 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
322 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
323 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
324 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
325 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
326 further details and installation.
331 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
333 Internal test framework changes
334 -------------------------------
336 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
338 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
339 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
340 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
341 can result in buggy behavior.
343 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
344 =========================
349 Maildir tag synchronization
351 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
352 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
353 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
354 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
355 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
356 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
359 Command-Line Interface
360 ----------------------
362 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
363 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
364 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
365 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
366 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
372 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
374 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
376 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
377 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
378 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
380 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
382 It is now possible to embed newlines in
383 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
386 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
388 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
389 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
390 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
391 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
392 inside the result or message.
394 Search now uses the JSON format internally
396 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
397 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
399 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
400 user-specified formatting
402 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
403 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
404 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
405 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
406 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
408 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
409 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
411 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
412 ===========================
417 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
418 compilation error for this contrib package.
420 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
421 ===========================
426 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
428 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
429 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
430 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
431 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
433 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
434 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
437 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
438 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
439 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
440 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
443 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
445 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
448 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
449 =========================
451 Command-Line Interface
452 ----------------------
456 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
457 for a reply message and full information about the original message
458 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
459 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
461 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
462 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
463 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
464 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
468 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
469 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
471 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
472 tag in your query, for example:
474 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
476 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
477 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
479 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
480 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
482 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
484 Raw show format changes
486 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
487 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
488 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
489 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
490 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
491 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
492 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
493 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
495 Listing configuration items
497 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
503 Changes to tagging interface
505 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
506 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
507 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
508 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
509 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
510 for more information.
512 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
513 may need to update in custom configurations.
515 Reply improvement using the JSON format
517 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
518 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
519 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
520 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
523 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
524 -----------------------------
526 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
527 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
528 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
529 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
530 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
531 contrib/ from now on.
536 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
537 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
539 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
540 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
542 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
543 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
544 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
546 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
547 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
549 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
550 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
551 returning the new database object or directory object.
558 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
559 compatible with go 1.
561 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
562 =========================
564 Command-Line Interface
565 ----------------------
569 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
570 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
571 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
572 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
574 Mail store folder/file ignore
576 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
577 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
578 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
580 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
581 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
583 Unified help and manual pages
585 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
586 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
589 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
591 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
592 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
600 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
601 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
602 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
603 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
605 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
607 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
608 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
610 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
613 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
614 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
615 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
617 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
619 should be changed to:
621 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
623 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
625 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
626 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
628 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
630 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
631 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
632 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
633 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
634 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
635 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
639 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
640 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
641 of Mailing List Archives.
643 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
645 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
646 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
649 Show view archiving key binding changes
651 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
652 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
653 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
654 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
655 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
658 Support text/calendar MIME type
660 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
663 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
665 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
666 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
667 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
668 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
670 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
672 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
673 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
674 messages blue by default in the search view.
678 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
679 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
686 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
689 Python bindings changes
690 -----------------------
692 Python 3.2 compatibility
694 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
696 Added missing unicode conversions
698 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
699 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
700 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
705 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
707 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
708 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
709 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
710 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
711 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
713 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
714 ===========================
719 Fix error handling in python bindings
721 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
722 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
723 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
724 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
726 Quote MML tags in replies
728 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
729 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
730 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
731 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
732 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
733 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
734 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
735 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
737 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
738 =========================
740 Command-Line Interface
741 ----------------------
745 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
746 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
747 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
748 importing new messages into the database.
750 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
752 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
753 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
754 sometimes. This is now fixed.
759 Automatic tag query optimization
761 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
762 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
763 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
765 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
767 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
768 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
769 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
774 Reduction of memory leaks
776 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
777 and fixed in this release.
784 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
785 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
786 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
789 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
791 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
792 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
793 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
796 Improvements in saved search management
798 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
799 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
800 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
802 Hooks for notmuch-hello
804 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
805 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
806 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
808 New face for crypto parts headers
810 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
811 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
812 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
815 Use space as default thousands separator
817 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
818 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
819 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
821 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
824 New function notmuch-show-advance
826 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
827 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
828 be bound to SPC with:
830 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
832 Various performance improvements
837 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
838 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
841 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
842 ===========================
847 Fix crash in python bindings
849 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
850 for some, but not all users.
852 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
853 ===========================
858 Fix `--help` argument
860 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
861 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
862 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
864 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
865 =========================
867 New build and testing features
868 ------------------------------
870 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
871 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
872 prerequisites is improved.
874 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
876 New command-line features
877 -------------------------
879 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
881 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
882 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
885 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
887 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
888 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
889 favour of using stdout.
891 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
893 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
894 limit the number of results shown.
896 Add `notmuch count --output` option
898 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
899 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
902 New emacs UI features
903 ---------------------
905 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
907 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
908 starting with "tag:".
910 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
912 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
913 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
915 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
917 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
919 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
921 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
922 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
927 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
929 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
931 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
932 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
933 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
934 requires a database rebuild:
936 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
937 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
939 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
941 New collection of add-on tools
942 ------------------------------
944 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
945 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
946 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
949 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
951 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
952 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
953 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
955 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
956 ========================
958 New, general features
959 ---------------------
961 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
963 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
964 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
965 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
966 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
967 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
974 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
975 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
977 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
981 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
982 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
983 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
986 Python bindings changes
987 -----------------------
989 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
991 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
992 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
993 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
994 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
995 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
996 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
998 Ruby bindings changes
999 ---------------------
1001 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1002 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1003 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1004 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1009 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1011 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1012 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1014 Reply formatting cleanup
1015 ------------------------
1017 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1018 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1020 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1021 ========================
1023 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1025 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1026 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1027 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1028 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1031 Improved Build system portability
1033 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1034 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1035 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1037 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1039 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1041 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1043 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1044 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1045 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1047 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1048 ========================
1050 Vim interface improvements
1051 --------------------------
1053 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1055 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1056 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1057 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1058 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1059 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1061 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1063 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1064 * fix compose temp file name
1066 Python Bindings changes
1067 -----------------------
1069 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1071 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1072 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1074 Build-System improvements
1075 -------------------------
1077 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1079 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1082 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1083 ==========================
1088 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1090 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1091 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1093 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1094 =======================
1096 New, general features
1097 ---------------------
1099 Folder-based searching
1101 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1102 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1103 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1107 For example, one might use things such as:
1113 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1114 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1116 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1117 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1118 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1119 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1121 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1122 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1123 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1126 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1127 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1129 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1131 Support for PGP/MIME
1133 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1134 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1135 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1137 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1139 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1140 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1142 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1143 notmuch will receive these tags.
1145 New command-line features
1146 -------------------------
1148 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1150 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1151 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1153 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1155 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1156 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1157 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1159 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1161 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1162 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1163 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1164 which parts a signature part applies).
1166 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1168 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1169 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1170 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1171 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1172 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1175 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1177 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1178 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1179 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1180 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1181 by translating it internally to the new call.
1183 Performance improvements
1184 ------------------------
1186 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1188 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1189 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1190 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1192 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1193 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1195 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1197 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1198 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1199 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1201 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1202 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1203 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1204 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1206 Faster initial indexing
1208 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1209 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1210 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1212 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1214 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1215 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1216 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1217 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1219 New emacs-interface features
1220 ----------------------------
1222 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1224 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1225 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1226 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1227 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1228 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1229 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1231 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1233 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1234 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1235 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1236 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1238 User-selectable From address
1240 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1241 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1242 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1243 will prompt for the from address to use.
1245 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1246 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1247 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1249 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1250 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1251 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1254 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1256 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1257 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1259 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1261 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1263 ----- Original Message -----
1265 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1266 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1267 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1268 citations work much like conventional citations.
1270 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1272 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1273 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1274 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1275 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1276 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1278 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1279 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1281 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1283 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1284 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1285 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1287 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1289 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1290 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1291 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1292 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1293 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1295 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1297 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1300 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1302 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1304 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1306 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1309 Vim interface improvements
1310 --------------------------
1312 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1314 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1315 * Implementing archive in show view
1316 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1317 * Add delete commands
1320 Bindings improvements
1321 ---------------------
1323 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1325 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1326 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1328 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1330 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1334 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1335 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1336 `list(Messages)` works now
1337 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1339 These allow, for example:
1341 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1343 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1345 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1351 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1353 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1356 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1358 New build-system features
1359 -------------------------
1361 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1363 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1364 the configure script from some other directory:
1371 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1373 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1374 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1375 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1376 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1377 manual invocation of configure.
1379 New test-suite feature
1380 ----------------------
1382 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1384 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1385 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1386 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1387 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1388 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1391 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1393 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1394 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1395 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1396 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1397 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1398 are updated to take advantage of this.
1400 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1402 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1403 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1404 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1405 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1411 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1413 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1414 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1415 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1417 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1419 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1421 to:user@elsewhere.com
1423 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1425 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1427 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1429 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1430 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1431 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1434 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1435 from the Received headers in some cases
1437 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1438 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1440 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1442 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1444 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1446 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1447 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1448 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1450 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1451 -------------------------
1453 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1455 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1456 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1457 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1459 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1461 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1462 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1463 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1466 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1468 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1469 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1470 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1471 fixed to avoid this bug.
1473 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1475 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1476 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1478 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1479 ========================
1481 New, general features
1482 ---------------------
1484 Maildir-flag synchronization
1486 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1487 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1496 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1498 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1499 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1500 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1501 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1503 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1504 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1505 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1506 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1509 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1511 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1512 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1513 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1515 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1516 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1518 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1519 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1521 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1522 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1523 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1525 New library features
1526 --------------------
1528 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1530 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1531 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1532 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1533 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1535 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1536 message with the new function:
1538 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1540 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1541 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1542 over all available filenames for a given message.
1544 New command-line features
1545 -------------------------
1547 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1549 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1550 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1551 access to the mail store itself.
1553 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1554 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1555 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1556 name of a script containing:
1558 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1560 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1561 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1567 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1569 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1571 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1573 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1574 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1575 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1576 now produces nothing).
1578 Emacs interface improvements
1579 ----------------------------
1581 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1583 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1585 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1587 Display current thread subject in a header line
1589 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1591 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1593 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1594 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1595 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1596 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1597 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1598 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1599 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1601 Vim interface improvements
1602 --------------------------
1604 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1606 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1607 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1613 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1615 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1616 ========================
1618 New command-line features
1619 -------------------------
1621 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1623 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1624 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1625 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1627 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1628 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1629 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1630 scripts. For example:
1632 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1633 <operations-on> "$file"
1636 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1638 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1639 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1640 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1641 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1642 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1643 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1645 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1647 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1648 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1649 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1650 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1652 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1654 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1655 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1656 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1657 default rather than Bcc.
1659 New library features
1660 --------------------
1662 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1664 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1665 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1670 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1672 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1673 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1674 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1675 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1676 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1677 notmuch customize interface.
1679 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1681 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1682 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1683 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1684 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1686 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1688 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1689 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1690 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1691 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1693 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1695 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1696 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1697 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1698 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1699 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1700 notmuch customize interface.
1702 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1704 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1705 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1706 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1707 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1708 notmuch customize interface.
1710 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1712 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1713 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1714 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1715 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1718 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1720 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1721 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1722 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1725 New build-system features
1726 -------------------------
1728 Various portability fixes have been applied
1730 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1731 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1732 more portable than ever before.
1734 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1736 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1737 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1738 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1740 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1741 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1742 automatically run ldconfig.
1744 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1745 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1746 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1748 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1749 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1750 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1751 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1753 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1755 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1756 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1757 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1758 used in the resulting Makefile.
1760 New test-suite features
1761 -----------------------
1763 New modularization of test suite
1765 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1766 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1767 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1768 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1769 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1770 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1771 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1772 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1774 New testing of emacs interface
1776 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1777 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1778 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1779 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1780 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1781 database via the FCC setting.
1786 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1788 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1789 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1790 persistent error of the form:
1792 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1794 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1795 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1797 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1799 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1800 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1801 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1803 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1805 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1806 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1807 parsing the notmuch results).
1809 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1811 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1814 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1815 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1816 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1821 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1823 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1824 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1825 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1826 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1827 the emacs interface.
1829 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1831 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1832 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1833 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1835 Python-binding fixes
1836 --------------------
1838 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1840 Debian-specific fixes
1841 ---------------------
1843 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1845 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1846 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1847 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1850 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1851 ==========================
1856 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1858 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1859 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1860 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1861 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1863 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1865 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1866 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1867 want notmuch to crash.
1872 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1874 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1875 directory does not exist
1880 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1882 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1883 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1885 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1886 ========================
1888 New command-line features
1889 -------------------------
1891 User-configurable tags for new messages
1893 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1894 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1895 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1896 to specify this value.
1898 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1900 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1901 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1902 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1904 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1906 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1907 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1909 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1911 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1912 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1913 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1914 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1915 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1918 Indication of author names that match a search
1920 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1921 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1922 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1923 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1924 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1925 messages in the thread are listed first.
1927 New: Python bindings
1928 --------------------
1930 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1931 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1932 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1933 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1935 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1936 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1937 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1940 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1941 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1942 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1944 Emacs interface improvements
1945 ----------------------------
1947 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1949 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1950 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1951 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1952 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1953 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1954 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1955 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1956 but without any of the disadvantages).
1958 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1959 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1960 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1963 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1964 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1965 instead running something like:
1967 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1969 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1970 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1971 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1974 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1976 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1977 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1978 tweaked by the user.
1980 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1981 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1982 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1985 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1986 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1987 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1990 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1992 This support currently relies on an external program,
1993 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1994 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1995 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1996 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1997 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2000 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2001 notmuch) is available via:
2003 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2005 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2006 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2007 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2009 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2011 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2012 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2013 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2014 making this automatic in a future release.
2016 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2018 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2019 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2020 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2021 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2022 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2023 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2026 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2028 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2029 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2030 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2032 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2034 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2035 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2036 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2038 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2039 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2040 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2041 other representation.
2043 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2044 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2047 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2049 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2050 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2051 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2053 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2054 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2055 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2057 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2059 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2060 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2061 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2062 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2063 to display the search result.
2065 More flexible handling of header visibility
2067 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2068 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2069 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2070 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2071 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2072 with the 'h' keybinding.
2074 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2075 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2076 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2078 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2080 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2082 Customizable formatting of search results
2084 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2085 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2086 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2088 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2090 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2092 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2097 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2099 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2100 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2101 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2102 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2108 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2110 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2111 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2113 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2115 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2116 accept are now all accepted.
2121 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2123 Better display of output from failed tests
2125 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2126 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2128 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2129 ========================
2131 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2132 detailed release notes this time!
2134 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2135 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2137 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2138 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2139 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2140 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2147 Better guessing of From: header
2149 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2150 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2151 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2152 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2153 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2156 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2158 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2159 guaranteed to match all messages.
2161 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2163 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2164 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2165 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2166 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2167 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2170 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2173 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2174 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2175 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2176 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2181 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2183 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2184 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2185 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2186 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2188 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2190 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2192 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2193 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2194 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2196 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2198 Previously, the user might see:
2200 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2204 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2206 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2207 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2208 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2209 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2211 Emacs client features
2212 ---------------------
2214 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2216 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2217 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2218 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2219 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2220 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2222 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2225 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2226 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2227 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2228 search with the '*' binding.
2230 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2232 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2233 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2236 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2238 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2239 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2240 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2242 Build-system features
2243 ---------------------
2245 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2247 Add support to configure for many standard options
2249 We include actual support for:
2251 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2253 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2255 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2256 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2258 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2259 separate "make install-emacs"
2261 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2263 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2264 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2265 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2267 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2270 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2271 ========================
2273 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2275 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2276 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2278 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2279 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2280 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2281 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2282 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2283 tags from messages in a thread.
2290 indent-tabs-mode: nil