1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
9 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
10 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
11 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
12 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
13 but may be removed in a future release.
15 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
17 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
18 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
19 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
24 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
26 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
27 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
28 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
29 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
31 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
33 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
34 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
35 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
36 simply displayed in place of the message.
38 Improved text/calendar content handling
40 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
41 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
42 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
43 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
45 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
47 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
48 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
49 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
50 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
55 Date range search support
57 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
58 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
59 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
60 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
61 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
64 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
65 -----------------------------
67 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
68 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
69 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
70 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
71 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
72 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
73 further details and installation.
75 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
76 =========================
81 Maildir tag synchronization
83 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
84 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
85 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
86 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
87 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
88 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
91 Command-Line Interface
92 ----------------------
94 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
95 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
96 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
97 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
98 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
104 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
106 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
108 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
109 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
110 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
112 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
114 It is now possible to embed newlines in
115 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
118 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
120 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
121 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
122 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
123 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
124 inside the result or message.
126 Search now uses the JSON format internally
128 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
129 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
131 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
132 user-specified formatting
134 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
135 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
136 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
137 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
138 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
140 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
141 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
143 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
144 ===========================
149 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
150 compilation error for this contrib package.
152 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
153 ===========================
158 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
160 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
161 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
162 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
163 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
165 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
166 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
169 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
170 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
171 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
172 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
175 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
177 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
180 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
181 =========================
183 Command-Line Interface
184 ----------------------
188 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
189 for a reply message and full information about the original message
190 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
191 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
193 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
194 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
195 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
196 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
200 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
201 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
203 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
204 tag in your query, for example:
206 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
208 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
209 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
211 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
212 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
214 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
216 Raw show format changes
218 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
219 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
220 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
221 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
222 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
223 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
224 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
225 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
227 Listing configuration items
229 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
235 Changes to tagging interface
237 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
238 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
239 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
240 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
241 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
242 for more information.
244 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
245 may need to update in custom configurations.
247 Reply improvement using the JSON format
249 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
250 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
251 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
252 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
255 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
256 -----------------------------
258 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
259 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
260 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
261 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
262 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
263 contrib/ from now on.
268 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
269 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
271 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
272 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
274 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
275 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
276 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
278 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
279 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
281 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
282 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
283 returning the new database object or directory object.
290 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
291 compatible with go 1.
293 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
294 =========================
296 Command-Line Interface
297 ----------------------
301 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
302 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
303 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
304 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
306 Mail store folder/file ignore
308 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
309 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
310 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
312 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
313 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
315 Unified help and manual pages
317 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
318 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
321 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
323 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
324 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
332 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
333 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
334 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
335 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
337 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
339 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
340 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
342 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
345 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
346 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
347 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
349 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
351 should be changed to:
353 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
355 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
357 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
358 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
360 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
362 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
363 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
364 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
365 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
366 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
367 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
371 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
372 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
373 of Mailing List Archives.
375 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
377 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
378 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
381 Show view archiving key binding changes
383 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
384 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
385 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
386 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
387 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
390 Support text/calendar MIME type
392 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
395 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
397 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
398 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
399 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
400 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
402 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
404 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
405 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
406 messages blue by default in the search view.
410 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
411 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
418 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
421 Python bindings changes
422 -----------------------
424 Python 3.2 compatibility
426 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
428 Added missing unicode conversions
430 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
431 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
432 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
437 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
439 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
440 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
441 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
442 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
443 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
445 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
446 ===========================
451 Fix error handling in python bindings
453 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
454 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
455 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
456 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
458 Quote MML tags in replies
460 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
461 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
462 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
463 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
464 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
465 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
466 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
467 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
469 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
470 =========================
472 Command-Line Interface
473 ----------------------
477 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
478 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
479 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
480 importing new messages into the database.
482 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
484 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
485 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
486 sometimes. This is now fixed.
491 Automatic tag query optimization
493 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
494 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
495 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
497 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
499 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
500 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
501 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
506 Reduction of memory leaks
508 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
509 and fixed in this release.
516 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
517 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
518 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
521 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
523 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
524 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
525 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
528 Improvements in saved search management
530 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
531 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
532 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
534 Hooks for notmuch-hello
536 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
537 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
538 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
540 New face for crypto parts headers
542 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
543 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
544 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
547 Use space as default thousands separator
549 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
550 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
551 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
553 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
556 New function notmuch-show-advance
558 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
559 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
560 be bound to SPC with:
562 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
564 Various performance improvements
569 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
570 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
573 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
574 ===========================
579 Fix crash in python bindings
581 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
582 for some, but not all users.
584 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
585 ===========================
590 Fix `--help` argument
592 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
593 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
594 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
596 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
597 =========================
599 New build and testing features
600 ------------------------------
602 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
603 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
604 prerequisites is improved.
606 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
608 New command-line features
609 -------------------------
611 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
613 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
614 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
617 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
619 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
620 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
621 favour of using stdout.
623 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
625 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
626 limit the number of results shown.
628 Add `notmuch count --output` option
630 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
631 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
634 New emacs UI features
635 ---------------------
637 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
639 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
640 starting with "tag:".
642 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
644 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
645 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
647 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
649 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
651 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
653 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
654 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
659 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
661 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
663 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
664 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
665 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
666 requires a database rebuild:
668 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
669 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
671 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
673 New collection of add-on tools
674 ------------------------------
676 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
677 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
678 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
681 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
683 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
684 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
685 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
687 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
688 ========================
690 New, general features
691 ---------------------
693 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
695 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
696 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
697 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
698 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
699 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
706 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
707 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
709 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
713 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
714 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
715 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
718 Python bindings changes
719 -----------------------
721 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
723 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
724 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
725 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
726 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
727 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
728 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
730 Ruby bindings changes
731 ---------------------
733 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
734 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
735 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
736 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
741 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
743 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
744 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
746 Reply formatting cleanup
747 ------------------------
749 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
750 MIME parts are being suppressed.
752 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
753 ========================
755 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
757 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
758 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
759 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
760 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
763 Improved Build system portability
765 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
766 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
767 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
769 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
771 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
773 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
775 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
776 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
777 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
779 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
780 ========================
782 Vim interface improvements
783 --------------------------
785 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
787 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
788 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
789 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
790 * fix from list reformatting in search view
791 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
793 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
795 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
796 * fix compose temp file name
798 Python Bindings changes
799 -----------------------
801 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
803 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
804 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
806 Build-System improvements
807 -------------------------
809 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
811 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
814 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
815 ==========================
820 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
822 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
823 people running gcc 4.4.5.
825 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
826 =======================
828 New, general features
829 ---------------------
831 Folder-based searching
833 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
834 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
835 storage). The syntax is as follows:
839 For example, one might use things such as:
845 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
846 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
848 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
849 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
850 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
851 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
853 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
854 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
855 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
858 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
859 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
861 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
865 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
866 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
867 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
869 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
871 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
872 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
874 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
875 notmuch will receive these tags.
877 New command-line features
878 -------------------------
880 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
882 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
883 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
885 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
887 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
888 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
889 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
891 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
893 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
894 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
895 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
896 which parts a signature part applies).
898 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
900 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
901 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
902 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
903 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
904 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
907 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
909 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
910 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
911 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
912 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
913 by translating it internally to the new call.
915 Performance improvements
916 ------------------------
918 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
920 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
921 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
922 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
924 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
925 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
927 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
929 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
930 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
931 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
933 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
934 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
935 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
936 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
938 Faster initial indexing
940 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
941 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
942 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
944 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
946 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
947 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
948 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
949 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
951 New emacs-interface features
952 ----------------------------
954 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
956 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
957 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
958 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
959 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
960 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
961 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
963 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
965 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
966 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
967 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
968 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
970 User-selectable From address
972 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
973 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
974 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
975 will prompt for the from address to use.
977 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
978 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
979 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
981 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
982 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
983 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
986 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
988 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
989 its parent, the subject is not shown.
991 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
993 When a message contains a line looking something like:
995 ----- Original Message -----
997 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
998 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
999 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1000 citations work much like conventional citations.
1002 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1004 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1005 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1006 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1007 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1008 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1010 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1011 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1013 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1015 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1016 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1017 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1019 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1021 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1022 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1023 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1024 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1025 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1027 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1029 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1032 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1034 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1036 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1038 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1041 Vim interface improvements
1042 --------------------------
1044 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1046 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1047 * Implementing archive in show view
1048 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1049 * Add delete commands
1052 Bindings improvements
1053 ---------------------
1055 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1057 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1058 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1060 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1062 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1066 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1067 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1068 `list(Messages)` works now
1069 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1071 These allow, for example:
1073 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1075 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1077 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1083 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1085 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1088 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1090 New build-system features
1091 -------------------------
1093 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1095 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1096 the configure script from some other directory:
1103 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1105 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1106 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1107 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1108 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1109 manual invocation of configure.
1111 New test-suite feature
1112 ----------------------
1114 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1116 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1117 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1118 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1119 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1120 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1123 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1125 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1126 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1127 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1128 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1129 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1130 are updated to take advantage of this.
1132 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1134 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1135 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1136 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1137 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1143 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1145 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1146 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1147 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1149 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1151 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1153 to:user@elsewhere.com
1155 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1157 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1159 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1161 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1162 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1163 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1166 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1167 from the Received headers in some cases
1169 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1170 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1172 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1174 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1176 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1178 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1179 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1180 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1182 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1183 -------------------------
1185 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1187 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1188 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1189 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1191 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1193 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1194 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1195 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1198 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1200 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1201 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1202 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1203 fixed to avoid this bug.
1205 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1207 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1208 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1210 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1211 ========================
1213 New, general features
1214 ---------------------
1216 Maildir-flag synchronization
1218 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1219 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1228 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1230 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1231 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1232 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1233 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1235 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1236 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1237 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1238 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1241 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1243 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1244 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1245 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1247 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1248 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1250 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1251 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1253 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1254 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1255 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1257 New library features
1258 --------------------
1260 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1262 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1263 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1264 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1265 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1267 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1268 message with the new function:
1270 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1272 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1273 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1274 over all available filenames for a given message.
1276 New command-line features
1277 -------------------------
1279 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1281 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1282 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1283 access to the mail store itself.
1285 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1286 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1287 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1288 name of a script containing:
1290 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1292 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1293 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1299 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1301 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1303 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1305 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1306 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1307 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1308 now produces nothing).
1310 Emacs interface improvements
1311 ----------------------------
1313 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1315 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1317 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1319 Display current thread subject in a header line
1321 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1323 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1325 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1326 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1327 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1328 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1329 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1330 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1331 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1333 Vim interface improvements
1334 --------------------------
1336 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1338 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1339 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1345 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1347 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1348 ========================
1350 New command-line features
1351 -------------------------
1353 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1355 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1356 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1357 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1359 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1360 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1361 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1362 scripts. For example:
1364 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1365 <operations-on> "$file"
1368 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1370 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1371 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1372 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1373 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1374 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1375 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1377 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1379 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1380 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1381 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1382 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1384 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1386 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1387 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1388 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1389 default rather than Bcc.
1391 New library features
1392 --------------------
1394 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1396 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1397 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1402 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1404 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1405 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1406 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1407 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1408 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1409 notmuch customize interface.
1411 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1413 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1414 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1415 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1416 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1418 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1420 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1421 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1422 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1423 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1425 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1427 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1428 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1429 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1430 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1431 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1432 notmuch customize interface.
1434 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1436 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1437 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1438 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1439 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1440 notmuch customize interface.
1442 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1444 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1445 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1446 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1447 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1450 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1452 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1453 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1454 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1457 New build-system features
1458 -------------------------
1460 Various portability fixes have been applied
1462 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1463 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1464 more portable than ever before.
1466 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1468 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1469 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1470 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1472 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1473 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1474 automatically run ldconfig.
1476 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1477 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1478 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1480 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1481 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1482 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1483 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1485 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1487 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1488 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1489 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1490 used in the resulting Makefile.
1492 New test-suite features
1493 -----------------------
1495 New modularization of test suite
1497 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1498 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1499 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1500 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1501 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1502 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1503 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1504 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1506 New testing of emacs interface
1508 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1509 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1510 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1511 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1512 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1513 database via the FCC setting.
1518 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1520 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1521 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1522 persistent error of the form:
1524 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1526 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1527 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1529 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1531 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1532 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1533 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1535 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1537 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1538 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1539 parsing the notmuch results).
1541 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1543 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1546 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1547 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1548 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1553 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1555 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1556 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1557 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1558 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1559 the emacs interface.
1561 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1563 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1564 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1565 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1567 Python-binding fixes
1568 --------------------
1570 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1572 Debian-specific fixes
1573 ---------------------
1575 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1577 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1578 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1579 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1582 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1583 ==========================
1588 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1590 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1591 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1592 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1593 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1595 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1597 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1598 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1599 want notmuch to crash.
1604 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1606 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1607 directory does not exist
1612 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1614 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1615 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1617 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1618 ========================
1620 New command-line features
1621 -------------------------
1623 User-configurable tags for new messages
1625 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1626 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1627 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1628 to specify this value.
1630 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1632 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1633 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1634 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1636 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1638 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1639 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1641 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1643 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1644 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1645 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1646 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1647 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1650 Indication of author names that match a search
1652 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1653 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1654 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1655 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1656 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1657 messages in the thread are listed first.
1659 New: Python bindings
1660 --------------------
1662 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1663 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1664 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1665 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1667 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1668 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1669 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1672 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1673 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1674 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1676 Emacs interface improvements
1677 ----------------------------
1679 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1681 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1682 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1683 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1684 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1685 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1686 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1687 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1688 but without any of the disadvantages).
1690 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1691 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1692 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1695 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1696 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1697 instead running something like:
1699 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1701 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1702 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1703 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1706 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1708 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1709 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1710 tweaked by the user.
1712 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1713 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1714 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1717 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1718 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1719 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1722 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1724 This support currently relies on an external program,
1725 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1726 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1727 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1728 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1729 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1732 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1733 notmuch) is available via:
1735 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1737 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1738 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1739 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1741 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1743 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1744 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1745 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1746 making this automatic in a future release.
1748 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1750 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1751 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1752 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1753 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1754 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1755 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1758 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1760 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1761 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1762 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1764 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1766 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1767 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1768 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1770 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1771 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1772 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1773 other representation.
1775 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1776 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1779 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1781 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1782 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1783 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1785 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1786 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1787 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1789 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1791 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1792 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1793 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1794 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1795 to display the search result.
1797 More flexible handling of header visibility
1799 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1800 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1801 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1802 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1803 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1804 with the 'h' keybinding.
1806 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1807 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1808 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1810 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1812 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1814 Customizable formatting of search results
1816 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1817 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1818 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1820 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1822 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1824 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1829 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1831 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1832 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1833 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1834 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1840 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1842 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1843 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1845 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1847 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1848 accept are now all accepted.
1853 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1855 Better display of output from failed tests
1857 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1858 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1860 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1861 ========================
1863 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1864 detailed release notes this time!
1866 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1867 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1869 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1870 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1871 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1872 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1879 Better guessing of From: header
1881 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1882 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1883 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1884 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1885 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1888 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1890 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1891 guaranteed to match all messages.
1893 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1895 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1896 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1897 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1898 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1899 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1902 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1905 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1906 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1907 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1908 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1913 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1915 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1916 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1917 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1918 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1920 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1922 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1924 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1925 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1926 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1928 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1930 Previously, the user might see:
1932 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1936 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1938 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1939 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1940 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1941 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1943 Emacs client features
1944 ---------------------
1946 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1948 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1949 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1950 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1951 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1952 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1954 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1957 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1958 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1959 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1960 search with the '*' binding.
1962 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1964 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1965 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1968 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1970 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1971 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1972 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1974 Build-system features
1975 ---------------------
1977 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1979 Add support to configure for many standard options
1981 We include actual support for:
1983 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1985 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1987 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1988 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1990 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1991 separate "make install-emacs"
1993 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1995 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1996 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1997 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1999 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2002 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2003 ========================
2005 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2007 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2008 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2010 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2011 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2012 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2013 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2014 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2015 tags from messages in a thread.
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