1 Notmuch 0.19~rc2 (2014-11-09)
2 =============================
7 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
8 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
9 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
10 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
11 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
12 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
13 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
15 Command-Line Interface
16 ----------------------
18 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
20 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
21 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
22 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
23 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
24 script callers should still check the return value.
26 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
28 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
29 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
30 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
31 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
32 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
33 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
34 and returning success even if indexing fails).
36 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
38 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
39 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
40 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
42 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
44 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
45 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
46 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
47 have at least `N` files associated with them.
49 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
51 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
52 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
53 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
54 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
55 count of duplicate addresses.
60 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
62 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
63 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
64 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
67 Improved handling of the unread tag
69 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
70 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
71 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
72 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
73 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
74 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
75 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
77 Expanded default saved search settings
79 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
80 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
82 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
84 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
85 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
86 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
88 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
90 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
91 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
92 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
93 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
94 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
95 the variable for details.
100 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
102 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
103 Representing these independently of the database version number will
104 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
105 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
107 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
109 Previously, library users were required to call
110 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
111 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
112 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
113 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
114 too out of date for that API.
116 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
118 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
119 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
120 atomic section will be aborted.
122 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
123 notmuch_database_destroy
125 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
127 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
128 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
129 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
130 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
131 messages into the same thread.
136 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
137 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
138 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
139 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
140 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
141 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
146 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
147 from the config file. Use something like:
151 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
152 "footer": "</body></html>",
161 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
166 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
167 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
168 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
170 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
171 ===========================
176 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
178 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
180 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
182 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
183 structure for signatures changed slightly.
185 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
187 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
190 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
191 ===========================
193 This is a bug fix and portability release.
198 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
200 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
202 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
204 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
206 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
212 Use --quick when starting emacs
214 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
216 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
218 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
220 Command-Line Interface
221 ----------------------
223 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
224 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
229 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
231 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
232 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
234 Fix for phrase indexing
236 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
237 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
238 will affect only newly indexed messages.
243 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
245 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
246 unintentionally removed.
248 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
249 =========================
254 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
255 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
256 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
257 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
258 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
259 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
260 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
261 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
262 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
268 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
270 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
271 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
272 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
273 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
274 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
275 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
276 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
277 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
279 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
281 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
282 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
283 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
284 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
287 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
289 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
290 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
291 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
292 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
293 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
294 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
295 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
300 Notmuch database upgrade
302 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
303 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
304 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
305 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
306 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
307 released version of Notmuch before now.
309 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
311 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
312 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
313 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
314 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
316 Message header parsing changes
318 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
319 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
320 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
321 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
322 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
323 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
325 Command-Line Interface
326 ----------------------
328 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
330 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
332 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
334 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
336 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
338 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
339 user does not want it.
341 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
343 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
344 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
345 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
346 support formatted output.
348 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
350 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
351 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
352 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
360 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
361 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
362 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
363 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
364 `~/.emacs` with these.
366 Changed format for saved searches
368 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
369 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
370 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
371 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
374 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
375 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
376 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
377 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
379 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
380 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
381 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
383 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
384 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
385 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
386 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
387 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
389 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
391 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
392 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
393 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
395 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
397 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
398 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
399 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
400 message had been unread).
402 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
403 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
404 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
405 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
407 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
408 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
409 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
411 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
412 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
413 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
414 to tags already present.
418 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
419 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
420 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
421 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
422 these differ from each other.
423 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
425 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
427 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
428 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
429 for these Emacs versions.
431 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
433 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
434 newlines before calling notmuch count.
436 Bug fixes for sender identities
438 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
439 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
440 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
442 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
444 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
445 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
446 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
447 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
449 Reply pushes mark before signature
451 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
452 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
453 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
455 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
457 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
458 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
464 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
465 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
467 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
468 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
469 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
470 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
472 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
473 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
474 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
475 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
476 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
478 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
480 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
481 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
483 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
484 =========================
486 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
487 ---------------------------------------
489 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
490 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
491 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
492 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
493 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
494 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
495 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
499 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
500 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
502 Command-Line Interface
503 ----------------------
505 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
507 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
508 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
509 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
510 print for each message.
512 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
513 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
514 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
515 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
517 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
519 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
520 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
521 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
523 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
525 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
526 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
527 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
528 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
530 `notmuch compact` command
532 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
533 functionality through a more convenient interface than
534 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
535 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
536 move the compacted database into place.
541 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
543 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
544 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
545 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
546 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
547 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
548 and multiple threads.
552 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
554 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
555 search, show and tree mode itself)
557 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
560 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
561 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
563 Customising `notmuch-tree`
565 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
566 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
567 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
568 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
569 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
570 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
571 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
573 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
575 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
576 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
577 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
578 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
579 thread when the search was performed.
581 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
583 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
584 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
585 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
587 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
589 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
590 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
593 Built-in help improvements
595 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
596 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
597 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
599 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
601 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
602 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
603 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
605 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
607 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
608 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
610 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
612 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
613 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
614 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
615 to move some of them to the common keymap.
617 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
619 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
620 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
621 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
622 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
624 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
626 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
627 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
628 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
630 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
632 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
633 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
634 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
636 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
638 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
639 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
640 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
641 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
642 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
644 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
646 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
647 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
648 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
649 the body part of the message.
654 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
655 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
656 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
658 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
659 =========================
661 Command-Line Interface
662 ----------------------
664 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
666 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
667 folder and notmuch index.
669 `notmuch count --batch` option
671 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
672 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
674 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
676 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
677 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
678 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
681 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
683 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
684 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
685 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
686 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
687 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
690 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
692 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
693 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
695 Top level option to specify configuration file
697 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
698 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
700 Bash command-line completion
702 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
703 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
704 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
705 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
706 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
707 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
708 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
709 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
710 bash-completion package.
712 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
717 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
719 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
720 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
721 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
722 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
723 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
724 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
725 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
726 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
728 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
730 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
731 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
732 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
734 Key bindings for next/previous thread
736 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
737 previous thread in the search results.
739 Better handling of errors in search buffers
741 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
742 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
744 Faster search and show
746 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
747 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
748 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
749 threads should show faster.
753 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
754 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
755 in question was now removed from this release.
760 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
761 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
766 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
768 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
769 ===========================
774 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
776 Internal test framework changes
777 -------------------------------
779 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
782 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
783 ===========================
785 Internal test framework changes
786 -------------------------------
788 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
789 build failures in non-interactive environments.
791 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
792 =========================
797 Date range search support
799 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
800 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
801 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
802 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
803 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
806 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
808 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
809 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
810 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
811 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
812 but may be removed in a future release.
814 Command-Line Interface
815 ----------------------
817 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
819 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
820 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
822 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
824 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
825 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
826 officially deprecated.
828 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
830 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
831 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
832 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
834 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
836 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
837 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
840 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
841 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
844 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
846 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
847 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
848 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
850 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
852 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
853 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
854 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
856 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
858 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
859 output separated by null characters rather than newline
860 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
861 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
866 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
868 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
869 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
870 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
871 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
873 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
875 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
876 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
877 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
878 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
879 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
880 the behavior of this, see
881 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
882 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
884 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
885 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
886 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
888 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
890 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
891 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
894 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
896 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
897 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
898 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
899 simply displayed in place of the message.
901 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
903 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
904 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
906 Improved text/calendar content handling
908 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
909 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
910 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
911 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
913 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
915 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
916 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
917 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
918 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
920 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
922 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
923 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
924 for HTML email containing images.
926 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
928 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
930 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
932 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
935 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
937 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
938 the point where it was.
940 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
942 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
943 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
944 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
945 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
946 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
948 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
950 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
951 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
952 thread instead of the message id.
954 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
955 -----------------------------
957 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
958 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
959 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
960 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
961 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
962 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
963 further details and installation.
968 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
970 Internal test framework changes
971 -------------------------------
973 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
975 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
976 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
977 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
978 can result in buggy behavior.
980 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
981 =========================
986 Maildir tag synchronization
988 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
989 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
990 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
991 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
992 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
993 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
996 Command-Line Interface
997 ----------------------
999 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1000 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1001 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1002 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1003 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1009 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1011 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1013 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1014 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1015 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1017 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1019 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1020 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1021 span multiple lines.
1023 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1025 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1026 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1027 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1028 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1029 inside the result or message.
1031 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1033 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1034 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1036 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1037 user-specified formatting
1039 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1040 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1041 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1042 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1043 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1045 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1046 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1048 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1049 ===========================
1054 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1055 compilation error for this contrib package.
1057 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1058 ===========================
1063 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1065 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1066 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1067 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1068 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1070 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1071 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1074 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1075 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1076 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1077 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1080 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1082 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1085 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1086 =========================
1088 Command-Line Interface
1089 ----------------------
1093 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1094 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1095 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1096 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1098 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1099 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1100 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1101 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1105 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1106 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1108 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1109 tag in your query, for example:
1111 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1113 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1114 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1116 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1117 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1119 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1121 Raw show format changes
1123 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1124 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1125 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1126 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1127 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1128 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1129 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1130 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1132 Listing configuration items
1134 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1140 Changes to tagging interface
1142 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1143 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1144 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1145 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1146 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1147 for more information.
1149 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1150 may need to update in custom configurations.
1152 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1154 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1155 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1156 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1157 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1160 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1161 -----------------------------
1163 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1164 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1165 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1166 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1167 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1168 contrib/ from now on.
1173 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1174 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1176 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1177 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1179 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1180 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1181 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1183 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1184 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1186 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1187 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1188 returning the new database object or directory object.
1195 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1196 compatible with go 1.
1198 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1199 =========================
1201 Command-Line Interface
1202 ----------------------
1206 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1207 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1208 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1209 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1211 Mail store folder/file ignore
1213 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1214 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1215 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1217 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1218 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1220 Unified help and manual pages
1222 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1223 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1226 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1228 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1229 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1237 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1238 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1239 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1240 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1242 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1244 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1245 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1247 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1250 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1251 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1252 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1254 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1256 should be changed to:
1258 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1260 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1262 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1263 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1265 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1267 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1268 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1269 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1270 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1271 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1272 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1276 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1277 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1278 of Mailing List Archives.
1280 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1282 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1283 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1286 Show view archiving key binding changes
1288 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1289 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1290 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1291 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1292 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1295 Support text/calendar MIME type
1297 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1300 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1302 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1303 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1304 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1305 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1307 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1309 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1310 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1311 messages blue by default in the search view.
1315 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1316 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1323 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1326 Python bindings changes
1327 -----------------------
1329 Python 3.2 compatibility
1331 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1333 Added missing unicode conversions
1335 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1336 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1337 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1342 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1344 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1345 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1346 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1347 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1348 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1350 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1351 ===========================
1356 Fix error handling in python bindings
1358 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1359 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1360 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1361 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1363 Quote MML tags in replies
1365 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1366 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1367 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1368 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1369 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1370 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1371 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1372 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1374 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1375 =========================
1377 Command-Line Interface
1378 ----------------------
1382 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1383 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1384 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1385 importing new messages into the database.
1387 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1389 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1390 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1391 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1396 Automatic tag query optimization
1398 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1399 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1400 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1402 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1404 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1405 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1406 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1411 Reduction of memory leaks
1413 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1414 and fixed in this release.
1421 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1422 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1423 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1426 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1428 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1429 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1430 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1433 Improvements in saved search management
1435 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1436 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1437 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1439 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1441 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1442 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1443 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1445 New face for crypto parts headers
1447 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1448 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1449 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1452 Use space as default thousands separator
1454 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1455 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1456 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1458 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1459 buttonized id: links
1461 New function notmuch-show-advance
1463 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1464 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1465 be bound to SPC with:
1467 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1469 Various performance improvements
1474 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1475 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1478 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1479 ===========================
1484 Fix crash in python bindings
1486 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1487 for some, but not all users.
1489 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1490 ===========================
1495 Fix `--help` argument
1497 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1498 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1499 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1501 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1502 =========================
1504 New build and testing features
1505 ------------------------------
1507 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1508 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1509 prerequisites is improved.
1511 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1513 New command-line features
1514 -------------------------
1516 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1518 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1519 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1522 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1524 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1525 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1526 favour of using stdout.
1528 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1530 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1531 limit the number of results shown.
1533 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1535 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1536 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1539 New emacs UI features
1540 ---------------------
1542 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1544 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1545 starting with "tag:".
1547 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1549 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1550 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1552 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1554 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1556 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1558 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1559 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1564 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1566 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1568 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1569 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1570 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1571 requires a database rebuild:
1573 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1574 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1576 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1578 New collection of add-on tools
1579 ------------------------------
1581 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1582 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1583 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1586 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1588 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1589 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1590 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1592 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1593 ========================
1595 New, general features
1596 ---------------------
1598 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1600 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1601 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1602 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1603 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1604 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1611 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1612 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1614 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1618 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1619 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1620 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1623 Python bindings changes
1624 -----------------------
1626 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1628 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1629 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1630 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1631 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1632 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1633 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1635 Ruby bindings changes
1636 ---------------------
1638 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1639 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1640 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1641 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1646 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1648 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1649 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1651 Reply formatting cleanup
1652 ------------------------
1654 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1655 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1657 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1658 ========================
1660 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1662 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1663 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1664 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1665 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1668 Improved Build system portability
1670 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1671 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1672 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1674 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1676 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1678 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1680 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1681 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1682 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1684 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1685 ========================
1687 Vim interface improvements
1688 --------------------------
1690 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1692 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1693 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1694 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1695 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1696 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1698 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1700 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1701 * fix compose temp file name
1703 Python Bindings changes
1704 -----------------------
1706 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1708 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1709 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1711 Build-System improvements
1712 -------------------------
1714 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1716 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1719 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1720 ==========================
1725 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1727 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1728 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1730 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1731 =======================
1733 New, general features
1734 ---------------------
1736 Folder-based searching
1738 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1739 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1740 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1744 For example, one might use things such as:
1750 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1751 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1753 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1754 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1755 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1756 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1758 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1759 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1760 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1763 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1764 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1766 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1768 Support for PGP/MIME
1770 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1771 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1772 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1774 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1776 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1777 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1779 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1780 notmuch will receive these tags.
1782 New command-line features
1783 -------------------------
1785 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1787 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1788 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1790 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1792 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1793 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1794 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1796 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1798 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1799 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1800 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1801 which parts a signature part applies).
1803 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1805 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1806 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1807 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1808 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1809 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1812 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1814 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1815 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1816 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1817 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1818 by translating it internally to the new call.
1820 Performance improvements
1821 ------------------------
1823 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1825 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1826 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1827 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1829 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1830 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1832 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1834 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1835 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1836 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1838 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1839 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1840 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1841 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1843 Faster initial indexing
1845 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1846 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1847 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1849 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1851 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1852 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1853 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1854 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1856 New emacs-interface features
1857 ----------------------------
1859 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1861 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1862 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1863 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1864 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1865 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1866 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1868 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1870 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1871 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1872 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1873 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1875 User-selectable From address
1877 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1878 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1879 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1880 will prompt for the from address to use.
1882 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1883 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1884 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1886 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1887 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1888 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1891 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1893 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1894 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1896 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1898 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1900 ----- Original Message -----
1902 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1903 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1904 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1905 citations work much like conventional citations.
1907 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1909 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1910 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1911 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1912 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1913 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1915 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1916 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1918 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1920 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1921 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1922 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1924 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1926 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1927 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1928 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1929 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1930 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1932 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1934 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1937 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1939 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1941 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1943 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1946 Vim interface improvements
1947 --------------------------
1949 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1951 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1952 * Implementing archive in show view
1953 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1954 * Add delete commands
1957 Bindings improvements
1958 ---------------------
1960 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1962 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1963 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1965 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1967 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1971 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1972 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1973 `list(Messages)` works now
1974 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1976 These allow, for example:
1978 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1980 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1982 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1988 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1990 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1993 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1995 New build-system features
1996 -------------------------
1998 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2000 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2001 the configure script from some other directory:
2008 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2010 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2011 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2012 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2013 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2014 manual invocation of configure.
2016 New test-suite feature
2017 ----------------------
2019 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2021 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2022 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2023 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2024 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2025 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2028 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2030 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2031 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2032 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2033 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2034 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2035 are updated to take advantage of this.
2037 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2039 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2040 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2041 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2042 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2048 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2050 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2051 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2052 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2054 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2056 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2058 to:user@elsewhere.com
2060 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2062 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2064 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2066 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2067 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2068 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2071 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2072 from the Received headers in some cases
2074 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2075 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2077 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2079 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2081 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2083 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2084 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2085 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2087 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2088 -------------------------
2090 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2092 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2093 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2094 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2096 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2098 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2099 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2100 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2103 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2105 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2106 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2107 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2108 fixed to avoid this bug.
2110 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2112 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2113 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2115 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2116 ========================
2118 New, general features
2119 ---------------------
2121 Maildir-flag synchronization
2123 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2124 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2133 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2135 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2136 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2137 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2138 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2140 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2141 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2142 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2143 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2146 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2148 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2149 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2150 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2152 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2153 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2155 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2156 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2158 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2159 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2160 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2162 New library features
2163 --------------------
2165 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2167 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2168 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2169 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2170 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2172 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2173 message with the new function:
2175 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2177 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2178 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2179 over all available filenames for a given message.
2181 New command-line features
2182 -------------------------
2184 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2186 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2187 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2188 access to the mail store itself.
2190 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2191 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2192 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2193 name of a script containing:
2195 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2197 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2198 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2204 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2206 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2208 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2210 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2211 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2212 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2213 now produces nothing).
2215 Emacs interface improvements
2216 ----------------------------
2218 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2220 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2222 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2224 Display current thread subject in a header line
2226 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2228 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2230 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2231 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2232 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2233 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2234 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2235 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2236 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2238 Vim interface improvements
2239 --------------------------
2241 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2243 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2244 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2250 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2252 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2253 ========================
2255 New command-line features
2256 -------------------------
2258 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2260 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2261 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2262 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2264 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2265 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2266 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2267 scripts. For example:
2269 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2270 <operations-on> "$file"
2273 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2275 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2276 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2277 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2278 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2279 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2280 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2282 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2284 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2285 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2286 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2287 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2289 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2291 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2292 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2293 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2294 default rather than Bcc.
2296 New library features
2297 --------------------
2299 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2301 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2302 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2307 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2309 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2310 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2311 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2312 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2313 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2314 notmuch customize interface.
2316 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2318 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2319 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2320 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2321 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2323 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2325 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2326 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2327 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2328 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2330 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2332 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2333 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2334 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2335 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2336 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2337 notmuch customize interface.
2339 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2341 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2342 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2343 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2344 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2345 notmuch customize interface.
2347 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2349 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2350 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2351 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2352 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2355 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2357 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2358 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2359 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2362 New build-system features
2363 -------------------------
2365 Various portability fixes have been applied
2367 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2368 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2369 more portable than ever before.
2371 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2373 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2374 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2375 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2377 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2378 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2379 automatically run ldconfig.
2381 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2382 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2383 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2385 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2386 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2387 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2388 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2390 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2392 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2393 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2394 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2395 used in the resulting Makefile.
2397 New test-suite features
2398 -----------------------
2400 New modularization of test suite
2402 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2403 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2404 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2405 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2406 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2407 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2408 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2409 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2411 New testing of emacs interface
2413 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2414 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2415 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2416 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2417 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2418 database via the FCC setting.
2423 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2425 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2426 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2427 persistent error of the form:
2429 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2431 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2432 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2434 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2436 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2437 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2438 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2440 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2442 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2443 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2444 parsing the notmuch results).
2446 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2448 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2451 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2452 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2453 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2458 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2460 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2461 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2462 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2463 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2464 the emacs interface.
2466 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2468 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2469 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2470 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2472 Python-binding fixes
2473 --------------------
2475 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2477 Debian-specific fixes
2478 ---------------------
2480 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2482 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2483 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2484 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2487 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2488 ==========================
2493 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2495 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2496 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2497 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2498 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2500 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2502 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2503 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2504 want notmuch to crash.
2509 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2511 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2512 directory does not exist
2517 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2519 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2520 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2522 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2523 ========================
2525 New command-line features
2526 -------------------------
2528 User-configurable tags for new messages
2530 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2531 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2532 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2533 to specify this value.
2535 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2537 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2538 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2539 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2541 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2543 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2544 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2546 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2548 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2549 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2550 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2551 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2552 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2555 Indication of author names that match a search
2557 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2558 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2559 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2560 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2561 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2562 messages in the thread are listed first.
2564 New: Python bindings
2565 --------------------
2567 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2568 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2569 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2570 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2572 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2573 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2574 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2577 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2578 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2579 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2581 Emacs interface improvements
2582 ----------------------------
2584 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2586 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2587 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2588 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2589 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2590 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2591 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2592 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2593 but without any of the disadvantages).
2595 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2596 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2597 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2600 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2601 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2602 instead running something like:
2604 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2606 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2607 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2608 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2611 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2613 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2614 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2615 tweaked by the user.
2617 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2618 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2619 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2622 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2623 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2624 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2627 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2629 This support currently relies on an external program,
2630 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2631 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2632 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2633 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2634 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2637 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2638 notmuch) is available via:
2640 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2642 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2643 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2644 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2646 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2648 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2649 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2650 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2651 making this automatic in a future release.
2653 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2655 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2656 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2657 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2658 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2659 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2660 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2663 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2665 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2666 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2667 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2669 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2671 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2672 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2673 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2675 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2676 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2677 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2678 other representation.
2680 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2681 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2684 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2686 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2687 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2688 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2690 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2691 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2692 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2694 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2696 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2697 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2698 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2699 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2700 to display the search result.
2702 More flexible handling of header visibility
2704 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2705 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2706 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2707 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2708 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2709 with the 'h' keybinding.
2711 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2712 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2713 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2715 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2717 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2719 Customizable formatting of search results
2721 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2722 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2723 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2725 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2727 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2729 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2734 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2736 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2737 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2738 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2739 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2745 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2747 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2748 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2750 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2752 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2753 accept are now all accepted.
2758 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2760 Better display of output from failed tests
2762 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2763 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2765 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2766 ========================
2768 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2769 detailed release notes this time!
2771 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2772 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2774 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2775 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2776 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2777 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2784 Better guessing of From: header
2786 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2787 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2788 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2789 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2790 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2793 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2795 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2796 guaranteed to match all messages.
2798 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2800 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2801 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2802 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2803 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2804 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2807 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2810 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2811 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2812 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2813 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2818 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2820 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2821 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2822 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2823 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2825 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2827 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2829 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2830 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2831 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2833 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2835 Previously, the user might see:
2837 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2841 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2843 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2844 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2845 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2846 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2848 Emacs client features
2849 ---------------------
2851 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2853 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2854 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2855 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2856 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2857 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2859 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2862 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2863 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2864 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2865 search with the '*' binding.
2867 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2869 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2870 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2873 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2875 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2876 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2877 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2879 Build-system features
2880 ---------------------
2882 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2884 Add support to configure for many standard options
2886 We include actual support for:
2888 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2890 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2892 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2893 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2895 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2896 separate "make install-emacs"
2898 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2900 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2901 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2902 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2904 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2907 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2908 ========================
2910 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2912 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2913 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2915 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2916 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2917 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2918 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2919 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2920 tags from messages in a thread.
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