1 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2 ========================
7 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
9 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
10 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
11 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
12 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
13 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
20 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
21 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
23 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
25 Python bindings changes
26 -----------------------
28 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
30 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
31 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
32 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
37 Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic,
38 and add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError. Rename destroy
39 to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
42 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
43 ========================
45 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
47 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
48 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
49 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
50 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
53 Improved Build system portability
55 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
56 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
57 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
59 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
61 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
63 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
65 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
66 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
67 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
69 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
70 ========================
72 Vim interface improvements
73 --------------------------
75 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
77 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
78 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
79 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
80 * fix from list reformatting in search view
81 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
83 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
85 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
86 * fix compose temp file name
88 Python Bindings changes
89 -----------------------
91 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
93 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
94 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
96 Build-System improvments
97 ------------------------
99 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
101 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
104 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
105 ==========================
110 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
112 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
113 people running gcc 4.4.5.
115 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
116 =======================
117 New, general features
118 ---------------------
119 Folder-based searching
121 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
122 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
123 storage). The syntax is as follows:
127 For example, one might use things such as:
133 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
134 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
136 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
137 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
138 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
139 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
141 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
142 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
143 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
146 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
147 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
149 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
153 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
154 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
155 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
157 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
159 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
160 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
162 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
163 notmuch will receive these tags.
165 New command-line features
166 -------------------------
167 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
169 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
170 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
172 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
174 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
175 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
176 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
178 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
180 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
181 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
182 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
183 which parts a signature part applies).
185 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
187 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
188 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
189 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
190 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
191 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
194 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
196 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
197 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
198 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
199 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
200 by translating it internally to the new call.
202 Performance improvements
203 ------------------------
204 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
206 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
207 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
208 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
210 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
211 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
213 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
215 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
216 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
217 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
219 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
220 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
221 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
222 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
224 Faster initial indexing
226 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
227 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
228 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
230 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
232 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
233 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
234 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
235 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
237 New emacs-interface features
238 ----------------------------
240 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
242 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
243 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
244 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
245 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
246 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
247 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
249 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
251 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
252 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
253 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
254 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
256 User-selectable From address
258 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
259 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
260 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
261 will prompt for the from address to use.
263 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
264 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
265 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
267 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
268 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
269 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
272 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
274 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
275 its parent, the subject is not shown.
277 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
279 When a message contains a line looking something like:
281 ----- Original Message -----
283 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
284 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
285 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
286 citations work much like conventional citations.
288 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
290 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
291 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
292 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
293 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
294 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
296 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
297 Notmuch After Tag Hook
299 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
301 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
302 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
303 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
305 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
307 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
308 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
309 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
310 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
311 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
313 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
315 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
318 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
320 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
322 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
323 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
325 Vim interface improvements
326 --------------------------
327 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
329 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
330 * Implementing archive in show view
331 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
332 * Add delete commands
335 Bindings improvements
336 ---------------------
337 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
339 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
340 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
342 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
343 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
346 - Message().get_filenames(),
347 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
348 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
350 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
351 These allow, for example:
354 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
356 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
361 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
362 Use len(list(Messages())) or
363 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
365 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
367 New build-system features
368 -------------------------
369 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
371 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
372 the configure script from some other directory:
379 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
381 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
382 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
383 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
384 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
385 manual invocation of configure.
387 New test-suite feature
388 ----------------------
389 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
391 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
392 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
393 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
394 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
395 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
398 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
400 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
401 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
402 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
403 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
404 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
405 are updated to take advantage of this.
407 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
409 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
410 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
411 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
412 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
417 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
419 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
420 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
421 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
423 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
425 This fixed a bug where a search for:
427 to:user@elsewhere.com
429 would incorrectly match a message sent:
431 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
433 Fix --output=json when search has no results
435 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
436 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
437 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
440 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
441 from the Received headers in some cases.
443 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
444 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
446 Cleaned up several memory leaks
448 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
450 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
452 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
453 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
454 interface and were never intended to be exported.
456 Emacs-interface bug fixes
457 -------------------------
458 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
460 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
461 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
462 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
464 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
466 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
467 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
468 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
471 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
473 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
474 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
475 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
476 fixed to avoid this bug.
478 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
480 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
481 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
483 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
484 ========================
485 New, general features
486 ---------------------
487 Maildir-flag synchronization
489 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
490 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
499 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
501 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
502 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
503 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
504 renamed with an 'R' flag).
506 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
507 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
508 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
509 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
512 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
514 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
515 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
516 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
518 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
519 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
521 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
522 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
524 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
525 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
526 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
530 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
532 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
533 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
534 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
535 notmuch_message_get_filename).
537 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
538 message with the new function:
540 notmuch_message_get_filenames
542 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
543 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
544 all available filenames for a given message.
546 New command-line features
547 -------------------------
548 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
550 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
551 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
552 access to the mail store itself.
554 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
555 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
556 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
557 name of a script containing:
559 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
561 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
562 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
567 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
569 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
571 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
573 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
574 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
575 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
576 now produces nothing).
578 Emacs interface improvements
579 ----------------------------
580 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
582 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
584 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
586 Display current thread subject in a header line.
588 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
590 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
592 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
593 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
594 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
595 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
596 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
597 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
598 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
600 Vim interface improvements
601 --------------------------
602 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
604 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
605 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
610 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
612 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
613 ========================
614 New command-line features
615 -------------------------
616 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
618 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
619 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
620 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
622 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
623 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
624 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
625 scripts. For example:
627 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
628 <operations-on> "$file"
631 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
633 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
634 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
635 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
636 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
637 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
638 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
640 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
642 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
643 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
644 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
645 custom items stored in the configuration file.
647 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
649 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
650 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
651 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
652 default rather than Bcc.
656 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
658 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
659 notmuch_query_t object.
663 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
665 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
666 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
667 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
668 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
669 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
670 notmuch customize interface.
672 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
674 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
675 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
676 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
677 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
679 Optional support for detecting inline patches
681 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
682 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
683 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
684 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
686 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
688 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
689 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
690 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
691 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
692 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
693 notmuch customize interface.
695 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
697 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
698 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
699 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
700 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
701 notmuch customize interface.
703 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
705 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
706 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
707 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
708 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
711 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
713 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
714 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
715 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
718 New build-system features
719 -------------------------
720 Various portability fixes have been applied
722 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
723 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
724 more portable than ever before.
726 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
728 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
729 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
730 after installing. This support takes two forms:
732 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
733 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
734 automatically run ldconfig.
736 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
737 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
738 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
740 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
741 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
742 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
743 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
745 Check compiler/linker options before using them
747 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
748 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
749 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
750 used in the resulting Makefile.
752 New test-suite features
753 -----------------------
754 New modularization of test suite.
756 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
757 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
758 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
759 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
760 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
761 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
762 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
763 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
765 New testing of emacs interface.
767 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
768 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
769 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
770 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
771 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
772 database via the FCC setting.
776 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
778 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
779 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
780 persistent error of the form:
782 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
784 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
785 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
787 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
789 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
790 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
791 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
793 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
795 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
796 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
797 parsing the notmuch results).
799 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
801 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
803 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
804 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
805 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
809 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
811 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
812 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
813 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
814 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
817 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
819 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
820 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
821 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
825 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
827 Debian-specific fixes
828 ---------------------
829 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
831 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
832 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
833 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
836 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
837 ==========================
840 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
842 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
843 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
844 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
845 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
847 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
849 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
850 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
851 want notmuch to crash.
855 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
857 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
858 directory does not exist.
862 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
864 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
865 final linking of notmuch would fail.
867 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
868 ========================
869 New command-line features
870 -------------------------
871 User-configurable tags for new messages
873 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
874 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
875 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
876 to specify this value.
878 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
880 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
881 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
882 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
884 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
886 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
887 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
889 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
891 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
892 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
893 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
894 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
895 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
898 Indication of author names that match a search
900 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
901 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
902 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
903 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
904 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
905 messages in the thread are listed first.
909 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
910 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
911 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
912 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
914 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
915 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
916 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
919 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
920 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
921 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
923 Emacs interface improvements
924 ----------------------------
925 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
927 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
928 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
929 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
930 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
931 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
932 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
933 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
934 but without any of the disadvantages).
936 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
937 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
938 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
941 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
942 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
943 recommend instead running something like:
945 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
947 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
948 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
949 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
952 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
954 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
955 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
958 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
959 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
960 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
963 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
964 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
965 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
968 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
970 This support currently relies on an external program,
971 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
972 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
973 already been written that generate address completions by doing
974 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
975 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
978 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
979 notmuch) is available via:
981 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
983 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
984 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
985 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
987 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
989 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
990 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
991 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
992 making this automatic in a future release.
994 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
996 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
997 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
998 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
999 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1000 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1001 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1004 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1006 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1007 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1008 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1010 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1012 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1013 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1014 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1016 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1017 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1018 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1019 other representation.
1021 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1022 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1025 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1027 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1028 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1029 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1031 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1032 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1033 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1035 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1037 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1038 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1039 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1040 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1041 to display the search result.
1043 More flexible handling of header visibility
1045 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1046 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1047 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1048 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1049 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1050 with the 'h' keybinding.
1052 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1053 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1054 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1056 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1058 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1060 Customizable formatting of search results
1062 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1063 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1064 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1066 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1068 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1070 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1074 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1076 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1077 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1078 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1079 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1084 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1086 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1087 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1089 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1091 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1092 accept are now all accepted.
1096 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1098 Better display of output from failed tests.
1100 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1101 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1103 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1104 ========================
1105 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1106 detailed release notes this time!
1108 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1109 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1111 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1112 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1113 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1114 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1120 Better guessing of From: header.
1122 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1123 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1124 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1125 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1126 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1129 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1131 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1132 guaranteed to match all messages.
1134 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1136 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1137 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1138 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1139 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1140 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1143 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1146 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1147 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1148 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1149 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1153 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1155 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1156 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1157 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1158 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1160 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1162 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1164 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1165 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1166 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1168 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1170 Previously, the user might see:
1172 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1176 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1178 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1179 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1180 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1181 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1183 Emacs client features
1184 ---------------------
1185 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1187 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1188 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1189 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1190 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1191 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1193 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1196 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1197 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1198 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1199 search with the '*' binding.
1201 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1203 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1204 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1207 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1209 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1210 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1211 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1213 Build-system features
1214 ---------------------
1215 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1217 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1219 We include actual support for:
1221 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1223 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1225 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1226 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1228 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1229 separate "make install-emacs".
1231 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1233 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1234 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1235 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1237 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1240 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1241 ========================
1242 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1244 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1245 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1247 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1248 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1249 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1250 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1251 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1252 tags from messages in a thread.