1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
8 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
9 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
10 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
11 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
12 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
13 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
14 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
15 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
21 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
23 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
24 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
25 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
26 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
27 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
28 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
31 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
33 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
34 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
35 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
36 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
39 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
41 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
42 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
43 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
44 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
45 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
46 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
47 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
52 Notmuch database upgrade
54 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
55 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
56 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
57 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
58 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
59 released version of Notmuch before now.
61 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
63 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
64 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
65 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
66 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
68 Message header parsing changes
70 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
71 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
72 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
73 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
74 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
75 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
77 Command-Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
82 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
84 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
86 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
88 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
90 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
91 user does not want it.
93 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
95 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
96 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
97 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
98 support formatted output.
105 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
106 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
107 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
108 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
109 `~/.emacs` with these.
111 Changed format for saved searches
113 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
114 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
115 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
116 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
119 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
120 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
121 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
122 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
124 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
125 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
126 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
128 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
129 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
130 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
131 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
132 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
134 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
136 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
137 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
138 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
140 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
142 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
143 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
144 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
145 message had been unread).
147 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
148 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
149 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
150 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
152 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
153 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
154 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
156 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
157 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
158 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
159 to tags already present.
163 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
164 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
165 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
166 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
167 these differ from each other.
168 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
170 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
172 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
173 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
174 for these Emacs versions.
176 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
178 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
179 newlines before calling notmuch count.
181 Bug fixes for sender identities
183 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
184 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
185 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
187 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
189 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
190 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
191 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
192 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
197 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
198 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
200 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
201 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
202 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
203 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
205 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
206 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
207 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
208 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
209 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
211 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
213 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
214 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
216 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
217 =========================
219 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
220 ---------------------------------------
222 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
223 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
224 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
225 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
226 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
227 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
228 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
232 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
233 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
235 Command-Line Interface
236 ----------------------
238 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
240 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
241 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
242 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
243 print for each message.
245 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
246 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
247 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
248 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
250 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
252 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
253 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
254 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
256 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
258 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
259 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
260 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
261 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
263 `notmuch compact` command
265 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
266 functionality through a more convenient interface than
267 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
268 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
269 move the compacted database into place.
274 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
276 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
277 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
278 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
279 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
280 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
281 and multiple threads.
285 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
287 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
288 search, show and tree mode itself)
290 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
293 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
294 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
296 Customising `notmuch-tree`
298 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
299 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
300 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
301 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
302 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
303 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
304 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
306 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
308 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
309 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
310 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
311 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
312 thread when the search was performed.
314 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
316 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
317 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
318 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
320 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
322 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
323 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
326 Built-in help improvements
328 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
329 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
330 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
332 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
334 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
335 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
336 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
338 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
340 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
341 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
343 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
345 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
346 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
347 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
348 to move some of them to the common keymap.
350 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
352 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
353 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
354 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
355 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
357 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
359 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
360 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
361 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
363 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
365 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
366 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
367 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
369 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
371 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
372 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
373 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
374 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
375 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
377 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
379 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
380 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
381 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
382 the body part of the message.
387 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
388 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
389 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
391 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
392 =========================
394 Command-Line Interface
395 ----------------------
397 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
399 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
400 folder and notmuch index.
402 `notmuch count --batch` option
404 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
405 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
407 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
409 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
410 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
411 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
414 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
416 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
417 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
418 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
419 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
420 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
423 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
425 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
426 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
428 Top level option to specify configuration file
430 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
431 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
433 Bash command-line completion
435 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
436 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
437 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
438 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
439 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
440 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
441 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
442 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
443 bash-completion package.
445 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
450 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
452 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
453 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
454 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
455 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
456 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
457 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
458 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
459 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
461 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
463 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
464 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
465 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
467 Key bindings for next/previous thread
469 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
470 previous thread in the search results.
472 Better handling of errors in search buffers
474 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
475 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
477 Faster search and show
479 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
480 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
481 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
482 threads should show faster.
486 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
487 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
488 in question was now removed from this release.
493 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
494 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
499 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
501 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
502 ===========================
507 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
509 Internal test framework changes
510 -------------------------------
512 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
515 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
516 ===========================
518 Internal test framework changes
519 -------------------------------
521 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
522 build failures in non-interactive environments.
524 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
525 =========================
530 Date range search support
532 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
533 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
534 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
535 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
536 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
539 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
541 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
542 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
543 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
544 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
545 but may be removed in a future release.
547 Command-Line Interface
548 ----------------------
550 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
552 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
553 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
555 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
557 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
558 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
559 officially deprecated.
561 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
563 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
564 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
565 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
567 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
569 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
570 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
573 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
574 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
577 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
579 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
580 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
581 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
583 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
585 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
586 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
587 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
589 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
591 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
592 output separated by null characters rather than newline
593 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
594 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
599 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
601 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
602 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
603 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
604 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
606 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
608 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
609 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
610 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
611 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
612 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
613 the behavior of this, see
614 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
615 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
617 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
618 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
619 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
621 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
623 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
624 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
627 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
629 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
630 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
631 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
632 simply displayed in place of the message.
634 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
636 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
637 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
639 Improved text/calendar content handling
641 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
642 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
643 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
644 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
646 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
648 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
649 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
650 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
651 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
653 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
655 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
656 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
657 for HTML email containing images.
659 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
661 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
663 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
665 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
668 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
670 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
671 the point where it was.
673 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
675 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
676 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
677 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
678 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
679 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
681 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
683 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
684 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
685 thread instead of the message id.
687 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
688 -----------------------------
690 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
691 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
692 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
693 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
694 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
695 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
696 further details and installation.
701 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
703 Internal test framework changes
704 -------------------------------
706 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
708 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
709 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
710 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
711 can result in buggy behavior.
713 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
714 =========================
719 Maildir tag synchronization
721 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
722 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
723 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
724 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
725 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
726 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
729 Command-Line Interface
730 ----------------------
732 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
733 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
734 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
735 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
736 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
742 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
744 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
746 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
747 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
748 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
750 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
752 It is now possible to embed newlines in
753 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
756 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
758 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
759 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
760 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
761 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
762 inside the result or message.
764 Search now uses the JSON format internally
766 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
767 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
769 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
770 user-specified formatting
772 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
773 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
774 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
775 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
776 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
778 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
779 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
781 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
782 ===========================
787 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
788 compilation error for this contrib package.
790 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
791 ===========================
796 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
798 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
799 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
800 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
801 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
803 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
804 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
807 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
808 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
809 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
810 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
813 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
815 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
818 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
819 =========================
821 Command-Line Interface
822 ----------------------
826 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
827 for a reply message and full information about the original message
828 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
829 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
831 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
832 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
833 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
834 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
838 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
839 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
841 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
842 tag in your query, for example:
844 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
846 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
847 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
849 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
850 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
852 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
854 Raw show format changes
856 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
857 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
858 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
859 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
860 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
861 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
862 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
863 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
865 Listing configuration items
867 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
873 Changes to tagging interface
875 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
876 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
877 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
878 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
879 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
880 for more information.
882 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
883 may need to update in custom configurations.
885 Reply improvement using the JSON format
887 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
888 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
889 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
890 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
893 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
894 -----------------------------
896 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
897 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
898 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
899 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
900 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
901 contrib/ from now on.
906 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
907 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
909 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
910 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
912 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
913 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
914 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
916 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
917 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
919 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
920 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
921 returning the new database object or directory object.
928 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
929 compatible with go 1.
931 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
932 =========================
934 Command-Line Interface
935 ----------------------
939 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
940 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
941 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
942 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
944 Mail store folder/file ignore
946 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
947 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
948 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
950 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
951 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
953 Unified help and manual pages
955 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
956 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
959 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
961 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
962 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
970 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
971 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
972 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
973 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
975 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
977 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
978 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
980 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
983 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
984 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
985 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
987 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
989 should be changed to:
991 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
993 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
995 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
996 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
998 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1000 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1001 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1002 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1003 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1004 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1005 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1009 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1010 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1011 of Mailing List Archives.
1013 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1015 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1016 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1019 Show view archiving key binding changes
1021 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1022 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1023 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1024 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1025 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1028 Support text/calendar MIME type
1030 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1033 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1035 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1036 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1037 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1038 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1040 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1042 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1043 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1044 messages blue by default in the search view.
1048 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1049 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1056 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1059 Python bindings changes
1060 -----------------------
1062 Python 3.2 compatibility
1064 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1066 Added missing unicode conversions
1068 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1069 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1070 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1075 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1077 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1078 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1079 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1080 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1081 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1083 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1084 ===========================
1089 Fix error handling in python bindings
1091 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1092 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1093 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1094 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1096 Quote MML tags in replies
1098 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1099 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1100 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1101 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1102 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1103 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1104 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1105 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1107 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1108 =========================
1110 Command-Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1115 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1116 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1117 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1118 importing new messages into the database.
1120 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1122 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1123 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1124 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1129 Automatic tag query optimization
1131 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1132 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1133 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1135 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1137 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1138 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1139 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1144 Reduction of memory leaks
1146 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1147 and fixed in this release.
1154 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1155 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1156 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1159 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1161 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1162 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1163 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1166 Improvements in saved search management
1168 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1169 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1170 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1172 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1174 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1175 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1176 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1178 New face for crypto parts headers
1180 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1181 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1182 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1185 Use space as default thousands separator
1187 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1188 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1189 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1191 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1192 buttonized id: links
1194 New function notmuch-show-advance
1196 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1197 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1198 be bound to SPC with:
1200 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1202 Various performance improvements
1207 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1208 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1211 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1212 ===========================
1217 Fix crash in python bindings
1219 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1220 for some, but not all users.
1222 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1223 ===========================
1228 Fix `--help` argument
1230 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1231 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1232 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1234 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1235 =========================
1237 New build and testing features
1238 ------------------------------
1240 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1241 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1242 prerequisites is improved.
1244 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1246 New command-line features
1247 -------------------------
1249 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1251 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1252 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1255 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1257 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1258 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1259 favour of using stdout.
1261 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1263 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1264 limit the number of results shown.
1266 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1268 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1269 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1272 New emacs UI features
1273 ---------------------
1275 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1277 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1278 starting with "tag:".
1280 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1282 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1283 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1285 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1287 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1289 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1291 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1292 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1297 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1299 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1301 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1302 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1303 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1304 requires a database rebuild:
1306 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1307 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1309 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1311 New collection of add-on tools
1312 ------------------------------
1314 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1315 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1316 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1319 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1321 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1322 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1323 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1325 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1326 ========================
1328 New, general features
1329 ---------------------
1331 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1333 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1334 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1335 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1336 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1337 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1344 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1345 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1347 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1351 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1352 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1353 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1356 Python bindings changes
1357 -----------------------
1359 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1361 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1362 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1363 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1364 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1365 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1366 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1368 Ruby bindings changes
1369 ---------------------
1371 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1372 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1373 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1374 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1379 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1381 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1382 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1384 Reply formatting cleanup
1385 ------------------------
1387 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1388 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1390 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1391 ========================
1393 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1395 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1396 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1397 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1398 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1401 Improved Build system portability
1403 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1404 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1405 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1407 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1409 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1411 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1413 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1414 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1415 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1417 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1418 ========================
1420 Vim interface improvements
1421 --------------------------
1423 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1425 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1426 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1427 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1428 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1429 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1431 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1433 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1434 * fix compose temp file name
1436 Python Bindings changes
1437 -----------------------
1439 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1441 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1442 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1444 Build-System improvements
1445 -------------------------
1447 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1449 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1452 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1453 ==========================
1458 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1460 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1461 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1463 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1464 =======================
1466 New, general features
1467 ---------------------
1469 Folder-based searching
1471 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1472 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1473 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1477 For example, one might use things such as:
1483 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1484 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1486 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1487 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1488 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1489 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1491 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1492 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1493 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1496 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1497 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1499 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1501 Support for PGP/MIME
1503 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1504 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1505 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1507 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1509 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1510 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1512 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1513 notmuch will receive these tags.
1515 New command-line features
1516 -------------------------
1518 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1520 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1521 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1523 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1525 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1526 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1527 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1529 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1531 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1532 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1533 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1534 which parts a signature part applies).
1536 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1538 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1539 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1540 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1541 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1542 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1545 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1547 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1548 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1549 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1550 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1551 by translating it internally to the new call.
1553 Performance improvements
1554 ------------------------
1556 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1558 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1559 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1560 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1562 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1563 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1565 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1567 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1568 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1569 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1571 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1572 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1573 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1574 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1576 Faster initial indexing
1578 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1579 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1580 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1582 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1584 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1585 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1586 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1587 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1589 New emacs-interface features
1590 ----------------------------
1592 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1594 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1595 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1596 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1597 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1598 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1599 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1601 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1603 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1604 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1605 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1606 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1608 User-selectable From address
1610 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1611 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1612 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1613 will prompt for the from address to use.
1615 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1616 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1617 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1619 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1620 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1621 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1624 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1626 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1627 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1629 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1631 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1633 ----- Original Message -----
1635 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1636 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1637 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1638 citations work much like conventional citations.
1640 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1642 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1643 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1644 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1645 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1646 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1648 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1649 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1651 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1653 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1654 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1655 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1657 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1659 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1660 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1661 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1662 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1663 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1665 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1667 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1670 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1672 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1674 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1676 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1679 Vim interface improvements
1680 --------------------------
1682 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1684 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1685 * Implementing archive in show view
1686 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1687 * Add delete commands
1690 Bindings improvements
1691 ---------------------
1693 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1695 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1696 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1698 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1700 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1704 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1705 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1706 `list(Messages)` works now
1707 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1709 These allow, for example:
1711 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1713 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1715 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1721 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1723 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1726 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1728 New build-system features
1729 -------------------------
1731 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1733 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1734 the configure script from some other directory:
1741 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1743 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1744 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1745 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1746 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1747 manual invocation of configure.
1749 New test-suite feature
1750 ----------------------
1752 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1754 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1755 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1756 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1757 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1758 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1761 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1763 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1764 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1765 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1766 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1767 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1768 are updated to take advantage of this.
1770 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1772 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1773 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1774 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1775 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1781 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1783 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1784 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1785 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1787 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1789 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1791 to:user@elsewhere.com
1793 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1795 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1797 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1799 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1800 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1801 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1804 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1805 from the Received headers in some cases
1807 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1808 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1810 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1812 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1814 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1816 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1817 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1818 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1820 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1821 -------------------------
1823 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1825 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1826 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1827 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1829 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1831 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1832 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1833 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1836 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1838 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1839 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1840 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1841 fixed to avoid this bug.
1843 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1845 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1846 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1848 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1849 ========================
1851 New, general features
1852 ---------------------
1854 Maildir-flag synchronization
1856 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1857 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1866 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1868 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1869 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1870 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1871 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1873 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1874 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1875 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1876 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1879 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1881 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1882 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1883 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1885 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1886 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1888 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1889 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1891 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1892 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1893 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1895 New library features
1896 --------------------
1898 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1900 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1901 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1902 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1903 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1905 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1906 message with the new function:
1908 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1910 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1911 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1912 over all available filenames for a given message.
1914 New command-line features
1915 -------------------------
1917 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1919 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1920 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1921 access to the mail store itself.
1923 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1924 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1925 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1926 name of a script containing:
1928 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1930 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1931 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1937 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1939 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1941 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1943 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1944 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1945 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1946 now produces nothing).
1948 Emacs interface improvements
1949 ----------------------------
1951 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1953 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1955 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1957 Display current thread subject in a header line
1959 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1961 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1963 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1964 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1965 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1966 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1967 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1968 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1969 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1971 Vim interface improvements
1972 --------------------------
1974 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1976 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1977 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1983 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1985 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1986 ========================
1988 New command-line features
1989 -------------------------
1991 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1993 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1994 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1995 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1997 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1998 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1999 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2000 scripts. For example:
2002 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2003 <operations-on> "$file"
2006 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2008 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2009 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2010 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2011 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2012 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2013 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2015 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2017 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2018 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2019 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2020 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2022 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2024 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2025 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2026 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2027 default rather than Bcc.
2029 New library features
2030 --------------------
2032 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2034 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2035 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2040 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2042 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2043 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2044 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2045 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2046 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2047 notmuch customize interface.
2049 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2051 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2052 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2053 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2054 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2056 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2058 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2059 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2060 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2061 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2063 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2065 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2066 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2067 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2068 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2069 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2070 notmuch customize interface.
2072 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2074 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2075 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2076 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2077 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2078 notmuch customize interface.
2080 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2082 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2083 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2084 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2085 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2088 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2090 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2091 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2092 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2095 New build-system features
2096 -------------------------
2098 Various portability fixes have been applied
2100 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2101 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2102 more portable than ever before.
2104 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2106 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2107 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2108 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2110 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2111 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2112 automatically run ldconfig.
2114 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2115 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2116 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2118 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2119 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2120 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2121 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2123 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2125 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2126 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2127 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2128 used in the resulting Makefile.
2130 New test-suite features
2131 -----------------------
2133 New modularization of test suite
2135 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2136 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2137 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2138 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2139 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2140 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2141 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2142 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2144 New testing of emacs interface
2146 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2147 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2148 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2149 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2150 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2151 database via the FCC setting.
2156 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2158 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2159 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2160 persistent error of the form:
2162 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2164 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2165 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2167 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2169 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2170 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2171 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2173 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2175 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2176 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2177 parsing the notmuch results).
2179 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2181 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2184 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2185 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2186 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2191 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2193 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2194 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2195 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2196 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2197 the emacs interface.
2199 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2201 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2202 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2203 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2205 Python-binding fixes
2206 --------------------
2208 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2210 Debian-specific fixes
2211 ---------------------
2213 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2215 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2216 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2217 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2220 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2221 ==========================
2226 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2228 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2229 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2230 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2231 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2233 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2235 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2236 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2237 want notmuch to crash.
2242 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2244 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2245 directory does not exist
2250 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2252 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2253 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2255 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2256 ========================
2258 New command-line features
2259 -------------------------
2261 User-configurable tags for new messages
2263 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2264 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2265 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2266 to specify this value.
2268 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2270 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2271 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2272 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2274 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2276 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2277 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2279 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2281 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2282 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2283 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2284 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2285 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2288 Indication of author names that match a search
2290 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2291 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2292 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2293 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2294 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2295 messages in the thread are listed first.
2297 New: Python bindings
2298 --------------------
2300 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2301 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2302 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2303 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2305 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2306 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2307 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2310 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2311 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2312 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2314 Emacs interface improvements
2315 ----------------------------
2317 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2319 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2320 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2321 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2322 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2323 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2324 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2325 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2326 but without any of the disadvantages).
2328 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2329 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2330 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2333 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2334 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2335 instead running something like:
2337 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2339 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2340 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2341 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2344 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2346 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2347 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2348 tweaked by the user.
2350 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2351 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2352 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2355 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2356 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2357 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2360 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2362 This support currently relies on an external program,
2363 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2364 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2365 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2366 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2367 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2370 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2371 notmuch) is available via:
2373 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2375 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2376 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2377 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2379 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2381 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2382 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2383 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2384 making this automatic in a future release.
2386 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2388 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2389 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2390 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2391 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2392 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2393 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2396 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2398 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2399 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2400 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2402 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2404 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2405 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2406 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2408 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2409 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2410 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2411 other representation.
2413 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2414 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2417 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2419 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2420 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2421 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2423 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2424 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2425 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2427 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2429 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2430 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2431 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2432 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2433 to display the search result.
2435 More flexible handling of header visibility
2437 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2438 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2439 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2440 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2441 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2442 with the 'h' keybinding.
2444 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2445 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2446 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2448 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2450 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2452 Customizable formatting of search results
2454 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2455 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2456 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2458 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2460 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2462 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2467 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2469 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2470 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2471 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2472 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2478 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2480 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2481 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2483 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2485 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2486 accept are now all accepted.
2491 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2493 Better display of output from failed tests
2495 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2496 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2498 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2499 ========================
2501 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2502 detailed release notes this time!
2504 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2505 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2507 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2508 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2509 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2510 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2517 Better guessing of From: header
2519 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2520 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2521 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2522 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2523 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2526 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2528 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2529 guaranteed to match all messages.
2531 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2533 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2534 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2535 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2536 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2537 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2540 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2543 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2544 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2545 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2546 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2551 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2553 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2554 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2555 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2556 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2558 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2560 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2562 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2563 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2564 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2566 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2568 Previously, the user might see:
2570 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2574 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2576 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2577 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2578 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2579 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2581 Emacs client features
2582 ---------------------
2584 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2586 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2587 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2588 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2589 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2590 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2592 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2595 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2596 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2597 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2598 search with the '*' binding.
2600 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2602 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2603 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2606 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2608 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2609 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2610 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2612 Build-system features
2613 ---------------------
2615 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2617 Add support to configure for many standard options
2619 We include actual support for:
2621 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2623 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2625 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2626 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2628 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2629 separate "make install-emacs"
2631 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2633 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2634 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2635 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2637 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2640 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2641 ========================
2643 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2645 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2646 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2648 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2649 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2650 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2651 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2652 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2653 tags from messages in a thread.
2660 indent-tabs-mode: nil