1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
8 notmuch_database_destroy
10 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
11 ===========================
13 This is a bug fix and portability release.
18 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
20 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
22 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
24 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
26 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
32 Use --quick when starting emacs
34 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
36 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
38 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
40 Command-Line Interface
41 ----------------------
43 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
44 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
49 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
51 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
52 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
54 Fix for phrase indexing
56 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
57 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
58 will affect only newly indexed messages.
63 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
65 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
66 unintentionally removed.
68 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
69 =========================
74 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
75 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
76 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
77 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
78 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
79 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
80 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
81 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
82 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
88 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
90 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
91 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
92 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
93 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
94 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
95 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
96 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
97 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
99 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
101 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
102 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
103 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
104 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
107 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
109 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
110 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
111 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
112 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
113 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
114 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
115 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
120 Notmuch database upgrade
122 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
123 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
124 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
125 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
126 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
127 released version of Notmuch before now.
129 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
131 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
132 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
133 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
134 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
136 Message header parsing changes
138 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
139 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
140 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
141 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
142 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
143 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
145 Command-Line Interface
146 ----------------------
148 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
150 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
152 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
154 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
156 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
158 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
159 user does not want it.
161 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
163 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
164 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
165 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
166 support formatted output.
168 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
170 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
171 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
172 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
180 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
181 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
182 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
183 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
184 `~/.emacs` with these.
186 Changed format for saved searches
188 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
189 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
190 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
191 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
194 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
195 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
196 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
197 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
199 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
200 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
201 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
203 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
204 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
205 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
206 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
207 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
209 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
211 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
212 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
213 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
215 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
217 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
218 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
219 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
220 message had been unread).
222 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
223 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
224 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
225 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
227 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
228 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
229 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
231 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
232 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
233 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
234 to tags already present.
238 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
239 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
240 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
241 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
242 these differ from each other.
243 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
245 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
247 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
248 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
249 for these Emacs versions.
251 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
253 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
254 newlines before calling notmuch count.
256 Bug fixes for sender identities
258 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
259 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
260 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
262 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
264 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
265 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
266 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
267 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
269 Reply pushes mark before signature
271 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
272 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
273 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
275 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
277 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
278 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
284 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
285 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
287 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
288 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
289 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
290 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
292 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
293 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
294 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
295 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
296 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
298 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
300 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
301 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
303 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
304 =========================
306 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
307 ---------------------------------------
309 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
310 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
311 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
312 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
313 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
314 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
315 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
319 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
320 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
322 Command-Line Interface
323 ----------------------
325 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
327 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
328 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
329 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
330 print for each message.
332 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
333 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
334 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
335 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
337 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
339 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
340 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
341 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
343 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
345 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
346 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
347 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
348 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
350 `notmuch compact` command
352 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
353 functionality through a more convenient interface than
354 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
355 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
356 move the compacted database into place.
361 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
363 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
364 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
365 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
366 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
367 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
368 and multiple threads.
372 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
374 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
375 search, show and tree mode itself)
377 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
380 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
381 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
383 Customising `notmuch-tree`
385 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
386 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
387 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
388 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
389 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
390 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
391 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
393 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
395 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
396 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
397 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
398 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
399 thread when the search was performed.
401 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
403 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
404 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
405 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
407 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
409 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
410 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
413 Built-in help improvements
415 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
416 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
417 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
419 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
421 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
422 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
423 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
425 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
427 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
428 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
430 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
432 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
433 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
434 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
435 to move some of them to the common keymap.
437 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
439 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
440 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
441 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
442 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
444 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
446 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
447 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
448 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
450 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
452 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
453 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
454 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
456 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
458 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
459 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
460 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
461 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
462 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
464 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
466 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
467 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
468 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
469 the body part of the message.
474 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
475 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
476 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
478 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
479 =========================
481 Command-Line Interface
482 ----------------------
484 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
486 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
487 folder and notmuch index.
489 `notmuch count --batch` option
491 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
492 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
494 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
496 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
497 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
498 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
501 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
503 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
504 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
505 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
506 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
507 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
510 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
512 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
513 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
515 Top level option to specify configuration file
517 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
518 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
520 Bash command-line completion
522 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
523 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
524 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
525 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
526 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
527 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
528 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
529 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
530 bash-completion package.
532 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
537 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
539 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
540 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
541 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
542 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
543 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
544 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
545 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
546 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
548 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
550 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
551 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
552 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
554 Key bindings for next/previous thread
556 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
557 previous thread in the search results.
559 Better handling of errors in search buffers
561 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
562 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
564 Faster search and show
566 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
567 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
568 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
569 threads should show faster.
573 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
574 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
575 in question was now removed from this release.
580 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
581 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
586 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
588 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
589 ===========================
594 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
596 Internal test framework changes
597 -------------------------------
599 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
602 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
603 ===========================
605 Internal test framework changes
606 -------------------------------
608 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
609 build failures in non-interactive environments.
611 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
612 =========================
617 Date range search support
619 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
620 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
621 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
622 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
623 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
626 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
628 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
629 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
630 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
631 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
632 but may be removed in a future release.
634 Command-Line Interface
635 ----------------------
637 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
639 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
640 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
642 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
644 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
645 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
646 officially deprecated.
648 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
650 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
651 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
652 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
654 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
656 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
657 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
660 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
661 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
664 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
666 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
667 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
668 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
670 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
672 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
673 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
674 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
676 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
678 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
679 output separated by null characters rather than newline
680 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
681 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
686 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
688 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
689 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
690 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
691 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
693 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
695 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
696 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
697 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
698 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
699 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
700 the behavior of this, see
701 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
702 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
704 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
705 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
706 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
708 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
710 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
711 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
714 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
716 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
717 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
718 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
719 simply displayed in place of the message.
721 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
723 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
724 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
726 Improved text/calendar content handling
728 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
729 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
730 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
731 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
733 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
735 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
736 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
737 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
738 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
740 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
742 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
743 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
744 for HTML email containing images.
746 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
748 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
750 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
752 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
755 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
757 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
758 the point where it was.
760 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
762 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
763 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
764 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
765 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
766 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
768 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
770 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
771 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
772 thread instead of the message id.
774 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
775 -----------------------------
777 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
778 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
779 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
780 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
781 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
782 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
783 further details and installation.
788 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
790 Internal test framework changes
791 -------------------------------
793 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
795 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
796 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
797 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
798 can result in buggy behavior.
800 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
801 =========================
806 Maildir tag synchronization
808 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
809 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
810 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
811 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
812 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
813 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
816 Command-Line Interface
817 ----------------------
819 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
820 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
821 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
822 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
823 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
829 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
831 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
833 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
834 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
835 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
837 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
839 It is now possible to embed newlines in
840 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
843 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
845 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
846 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
847 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
848 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
849 inside the result or message.
851 Search now uses the JSON format internally
853 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
854 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
856 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
857 user-specified formatting
859 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
860 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
861 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
862 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
863 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
865 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
866 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
868 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
869 ===========================
874 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
875 compilation error for this contrib package.
877 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
878 ===========================
883 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
885 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
886 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
887 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
888 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
890 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
891 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
894 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
895 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
896 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
897 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
900 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
902 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
905 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
906 =========================
908 Command-Line Interface
909 ----------------------
913 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
914 for a reply message and full information about the original message
915 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
916 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
918 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
919 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
920 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
921 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
925 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
926 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
928 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
929 tag in your query, for example:
931 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
933 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
934 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
936 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
937 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
939 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
941 Raw show format changes
943 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
944 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
945 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
946 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
947 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
948 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
949 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
950 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
952 Listing configuration items
954 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
960 Changes to tagging interface
962 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
963 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
964 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
965 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
966 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
967 for more information.
969 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
970 may need to update in custom configurations.
972 Reply improvement using the JSON format
974 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
975 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
976 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
977 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
980 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
981 -----------------------------
983 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
984 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
985 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
986 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
987 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
988 contrib/ from now on.
993 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
994 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
996 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
997 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
999 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1000 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1001 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1003 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1004 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1006 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1007 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1008 returning the new database object or directory object.
1015 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1016 compatible with go 1.
1018 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1019 =========================
1021 Command-Line Interface
1022 ----------------------
1026 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1027 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1028 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1029 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1031 Mail store folder/file ignore
1033 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1034 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1035 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1037 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1038 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1040 Unified help and manual pages
1042 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1043 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1046 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1048 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1049 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1057 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1058 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1059 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1060 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1062 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1064 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1065 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1067 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1070 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1071 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1072 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1074 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1076 should be changed to:
1078 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1080 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1082 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1083 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1085 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1087 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1088 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1089 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1090 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1091 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1092 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1096 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1097 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1098 of Mailing List Archives.
1100 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1102 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1103 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1106 Show view archiving key binding changes
1108 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1109 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1110 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1111 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1112 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1115 Support text/calendar MIME type
1117 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1120 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1122 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1123 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1124 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1125 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1127 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1129 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1130 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1131 messages blue by default in the search view.
1135 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1136 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1143 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1146 Python bindings changes
1147 -----------------------
1149 Python 3.2 compatibility
1151 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1153 Added missing unicode conversions
1155 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1156 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1157 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1162 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1164 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1165 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1166 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1167 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1168 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1170 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1171 ===========================
1176 Fix error handling in python bindings
1178 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1179 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1180 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1181 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1183 Quote MML tags in replies
1185 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1186 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1187 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1188 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1189 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1190 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1191 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1192 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1194 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1195 =========================
1197 Command-Line Interface
1198 ----------------------
1202 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1203 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1204 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1205 importing new messages into the database.
1207 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1209 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1210 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1211 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1216 Automatic tag query optimization
1218 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1219 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1220 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1222 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1224 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1225 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1226 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1231 Reduction of memory leaks
1233 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1234 and fixed in this release.
1241 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1242 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1243 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1246 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1248 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1249 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1250 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1253 Improvements in saved search management
1255 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1256 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1257 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1259 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1261 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1262 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1263 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1265 New face for crypto parts headers
1267 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1268 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1269 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1272 Use space as default thousands separator
1274 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1275 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1276 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1278 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1279 buttonized id: links
1281 New function notmuch-show-advance
1283 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1284 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1285 be bound to SPC with:
1287 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1289 Various performance improvements
1294 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1295 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1298 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1299 ===========================
1304 Fix crash in python bindings
1306 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1307 for some, but not all users.
1309 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1310 ===========================
1315 Fix `--help` argument
1317 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1318 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1319 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1321 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1322 =========================
1324 New build and testing features
1325 ------------------------------
1327 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1328 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1329 prerequisites is improved.
1331 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1333 New command-line features
1334 -------------------------
1336 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1338 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1339 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1342 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1344 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1345 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1346 favour of using stdout.
1348 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1350 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1351 limit the number of results shown.
1353 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1355 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1356 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1359 New emacs UI features
1360 ---------------------
1362 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1364 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1365 starting with "tag:".
1367 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1369 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1370 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1372 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1374 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1376 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1378 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1379 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1384 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1386 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1388 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1389 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1390 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1391 requires a database rebuild:
1393 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1394 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1396 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1398 New collection of add-on tools
1399 ------------------------------
1401 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1402 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1403 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1406 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1408 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1409 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1410 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1412 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1413 ========================
1415 New, general features
1416 ---------------------
1418 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1420 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1421 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1422 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1423 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1424 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1431 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1432 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1434 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1438 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1439 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1440 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1443 Python bindings changes
1444 -----------------------
1446 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1448 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1449 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1450 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1451 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1452 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1453 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1455 Ruby bindings changes
1456 ---------------------
1458 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1459 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1460 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1461 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1466 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1468 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1469 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1471 Reply formatting cleanup
1472 ------------------------
1474 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1475 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1477 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1478 ========================
1480 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1482 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1483 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1484 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1485 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1488 Improved Build system portability
1490 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1491 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1492 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1494 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1496 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1498 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1500 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1501 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1502 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1504 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1505 ========================
1507 Vim interface improvements
1508 --------------------------
1510 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1512 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1513 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1514 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1515 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1516 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1518 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1520 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1521 * fix compose temp file name
1523 Python Bindings changes
1524 -----------------------
1526 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1528 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1529 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1531 Build-System improvements
1532 -------------------------
1534 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1536 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1539 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1540 ==========================
1545 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1547 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1548 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1550 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1551 =======================
1553 New, general features
1554 ---------------------
1556 Folder-based searching
1558 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1559 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1560 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1564 For example, one might use things such as:
1570 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1571 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1573 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1574 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1575 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1576 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1578 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1579 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1580 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1583 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1584 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1586 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1588 Support for PGP/MIME
1590 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1591 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1592 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1594 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1596 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1597 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1599 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1600 notmuch will receive these tags.
1602 New command-line features
1603 -------------------------
1605 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1607 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1608 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1610 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1612 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1613 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1614 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1616 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1618 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1619 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1620 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1621 which parts a signature part applies).
1623 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1625 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1626 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1627 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1628 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1629 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1632 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1634 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1635 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1636 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1637 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1638 by translating it internally to the new call.
1640 Performance improvements
1641 ------------------------
1643 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1645 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1646 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1647 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1649 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1650 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1652 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1654 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1655 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1656 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1658 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1659 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1660 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1661 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1663 Faster initial indexing
1665 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1666 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1667 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1669 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1671 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1672 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1673 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1674 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1676 New emacs-interface features
1677 ----------------------------
1679 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1681 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1682 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1683 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1684 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1685 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1686 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1688 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1690 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1691 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1692 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1693 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1695 User-selectable From address
1697 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1698 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1699 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1700 will prompt for the from address to use.
1702 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1703 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1704 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1706 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1707 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1708 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1711 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1713 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1714 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1716 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1718 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1720 ----- Original Message -----
1722 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1723 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1724 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1725 citations work much like conventional citations.
1727 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1729 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1730 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1731 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1732 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1733 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1735 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1736 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1738 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1740 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1741 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1742 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1744 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1746 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1747 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1748 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1749 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1750 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1752 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1754 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1757 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1759 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1761 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1763 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1766 Vim interface improvements
1767 --------------------------
1769 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1771 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1772 * Implementing archive in show view
1773 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1774 * Add delete commands
1777 Bindings improvements
1778 ---------------------
1780 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1782 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1783 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1785 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1787 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1791 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1792 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1793 `list(Messages)` works now
1794 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1796 These allow, for example:
1798 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1800 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1802 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1808 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1810 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1813 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1815 New build-system features
1816 -------------------------
1818 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1820 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1821 the configure script from some other directory:
1828 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1830 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1831 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1832 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1833 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1834 manual invocation of configure.
1836 New test-suite feature
1837 ----------------------
1839 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1841 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1842 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1843 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1844 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1845 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1848 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1850 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1851 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1852 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1853 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1854 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1855 are updated to take advantage of this.
1857 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1859 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1860 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1861 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1862 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1868 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1870 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1871 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1872 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1874 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1876 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1878 to:user@elsewhere.com
1880 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1882 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1884 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1886 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1887 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1888 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1891 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1892 from the Received headers in some cases
1894 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1895 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1897 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1899 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1901 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1903 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1904 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1905 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1907 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1908 -------------------------
1910 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1912 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1913 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1914 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1916 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1918 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1919 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1920 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1923 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1925 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1926 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1927 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1928 fixed to avoid this bug.
1930 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1932 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1933 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1935 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1936 ========================
1938 New, general features
1939 ---------------------
1941 Maildir-flag synchronization
1943 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1944 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1953 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1955 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1956 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1957 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1958 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1960 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1961 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1962 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1963 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1966 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1968 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1969 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1970 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1972 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1973 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1975 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1976 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1978 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1979 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1980 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1982 New library features
1983 --------------------
1985 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1987 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1988 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1989 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1990 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1992 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1993 message with the new function:
1995 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1997 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1998 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1999 over all available filenames for a given message.
2001 New command-line features
2002 -------------------------
2004 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2006 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2007 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2008 access to the mail store itself.
2010 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2011 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2012 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2013 name of a script containing:
2015 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2017 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2018 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2024 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2026 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2028 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2030 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2031 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2032 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2033 now produces nothing).
2035 Emacs interface improvements
2036 ----------------------------
2038 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2040 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2042 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2044 Display current thread subject in a header line
2046 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2048 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2050 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2051 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2052 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2053 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2054 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2055 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2056 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2058 Vim interface improvements
2059 --------------------------
2061 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2063 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2064 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2070 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2072 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2073 ========================
2075 New command-line features
2076 -------------------------
2078 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2080 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2081 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2082 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2084 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2085 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2086 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2087 scripts. For example:
2089 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2090 <operations-on> "$file"
2093 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2095 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2096 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2097 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2098 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2099 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2100 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2102 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2104 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2105 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2106 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2107 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2109 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2111 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2112 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2113 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2114 default rather than Bcc.
2116 New library features
2117 --------------------
2119 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2121 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2122 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2127 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2129 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2130 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2131 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2132 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2133 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2134 notmuch customize interface.
2136 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2138 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2139 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2140 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2141 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2143 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2145 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2146 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2147 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2148 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2150 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2152 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2153 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2154 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2155 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2156 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2157 notmuch customize interface.
2159 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2161 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2162 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2163 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2164 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2165 notmuch customize interface.
2167 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2169 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2170 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2171 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2172 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2175 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2177 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2178 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2179 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2182 New build-system features
2183 -------------------------
2185 Various portability fixes have been applied
2187 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2188 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2189 more portable than ever before.
2191 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2193 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2194 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2195 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2197 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2198 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2199 automatically run ldconfig.
2201 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2202 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2203 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2205 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2206 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2207 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2208 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2210 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2212 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2213 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2214 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2215 used in the resulting Makefile.
2217 New test-suite features
2218 -----------------------
2220 New modularization of test suite
2222 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2223 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2224 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2225 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2226 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2227 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2228 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2229 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2231 New testing of emacs interface
2233 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2234 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2235 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2236 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2237 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2238 database via the FCC setting.
2243 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2245 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2246 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2247 persistent error of the form:
2249 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2251 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2252 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2254 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2256 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2257 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2258 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2260 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2262 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2263 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2264 parsing the notmuch results).
2266 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2268 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2271 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2272 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2273 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2278 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2280 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2281 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2282 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2283 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2284 the emacs interface.
2286 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2288 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2289 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2290 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2292 Python-binding fixes
2293 --------------------
2295 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2297 Debian-specific fixes
2298 ---------------------
2300 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2302 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2303 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2304 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2307 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2308 ==========================
2313 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2315 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2316 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2317 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2318 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2320 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2322 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2323 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2324 want notmuch to crash.
2329 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2331 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2332 directory does not exist
2337 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2339 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2340 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2342 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2343 ========================
2345 New command-line features
2346 -------------------------
2348 User-configurable tags for new messages
2350 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2351 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2352 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2353 to specify this value.
2355 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2357 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2358 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2359 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2361 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2363 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2364 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2366 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2368 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2369 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2370 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2371 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2372 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2375 Indication of author names that match a search
2377 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2378 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2379 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2380 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2381 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2382 messages in the thread are listed first.
2384 New: Python bindings
2385 --------------------
2387 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2388 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2389 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2390 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2392 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2393 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2394 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2397 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2398 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2399 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2401 Emacs interface improvements
2402 ----------------------------
2404 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2406 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2407 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2408 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2409 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2410 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2411 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2412 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2413 but without any of the disadvantages).
2415 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2416 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2417 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2420 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2421 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2422 instead running something like:
2424 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2426 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2427 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2428 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2431 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2433 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2434 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2435 tweaked by the user.
2437 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2438 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2439 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2442 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2443 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2444 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2447 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2449 This support currently relies on an external program,
2450 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2451 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2452 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2453 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2454 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2457 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2458 notmuch) is available via:
2460 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2462 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2463 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2464 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2466 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2468 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2469 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2470 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2471 making this automatic in a future release.
2473 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2475 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2476 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2477 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2478 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2479 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2480 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2483 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2485 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2486 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2487 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2489 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2491 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2492 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2493 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2495 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2496 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2497 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2498 other representation.
2500 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2501 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2504 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2506 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2507 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2508 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2510 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2511 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2512 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2514 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2516 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2517 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2518 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2519 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2520 to display the search result.
2522 More flexible handling of header visibility
2524 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2525 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2526 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2527 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2528 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2529 with the 'h' keybinding.
2531 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2532 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2533 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2535 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2537 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2539 Customizable formatting of search results
2541 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2542 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2543 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2545 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2547 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2549 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2554 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2556 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2557 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2558 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2559 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2565 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2567 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2568 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2570 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2572 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2573 accept are now all accepted.
2578 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2580 Better display of output from failed tests
2582 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2583 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2585 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2586 ========================
2588 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2589 detailed release notes this time!
2591 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2592 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2594 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2595 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2596 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2597 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2604 Better guessing of From: header
2606 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2607 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2608 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2609 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2610 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2613 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2615 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2616 guaranteed to match all messages.
2618 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2620 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2621 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2622 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2623 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2624 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2627 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2630 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2631 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2632 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2633 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2638 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2640 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2641 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2642 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2643 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2645 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2647 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2649 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2650 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2651 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2653 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2655 Previously, the user might see:
2657 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2661 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2663 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2664 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2665 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2666 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2668 Emacs client features
2669 ---------------------
2671 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2673 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2674 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2675 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2676 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2677 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2679 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2682 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2683 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2684 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2685 search with the '*' binding.
2687 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2689 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2690 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2693 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2695 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2696 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2697 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2699 Build-system features
2700 ---------------------
2702 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2704 Add support to configure for many standard options
2706 We include actual support for:
2708 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2710 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2712 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2713 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2715 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2716 separate "make install-emacs"
2718 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2720 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2721 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2722 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2724 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2727 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2728 ========================
2730 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2732 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2733 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2735 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2736 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2737 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2738 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2739 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2740 tags from messages in a thread.
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