1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Face customization is easier
9 New faces `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and
10 `notmuch-search-unread-face` are used by default by
11 `notmuch-search-line-faces`. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify
17 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
19 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
20 ===========================
25 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
27 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
32 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
37 Use `env` to locate perl.
42 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
44 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
46 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
48 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
50 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
51 =========================
58 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
59 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
61 Limited support for S/MIME messages
63 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
64 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
65 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
70 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
71 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
72 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
74 Command Line Interface
75 ----------------------
77 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
79 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
84 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
89 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
91 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
92 parts are now included in replies.
94 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
95 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
96 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
97 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
99 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
101 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
103 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
105 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
106 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
107 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
108 forwards only the current message.
110 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
112 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
113 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
114 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
115 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
116 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
117 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
118 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
119 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
122 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
123 longer generate empty buffers
125 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
126 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
127 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
128 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
129 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
131 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
133 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
136 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
138 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
141 Address completion improvements
143 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
144 you previously configured one, customize the variable
145 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
146 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
147 interactive address completion.
149 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
151 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
152 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
153 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
158 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
159 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
160 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
166 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
167 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
168 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
169 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
170 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
171 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
173 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
174 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
175 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
176 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
177 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
178 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
180 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
181 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
183 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
184 =========================
189 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
192 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
194 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
195 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
196 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
198 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
199 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
201 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
202 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
203 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
205 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
207 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
208 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
209 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
210 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
211 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
212 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
217 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
218 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
221 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
224 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
226 Command Line Interface
227 ----------------------
229 Database revision tracking
231 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
232 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
233 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
234 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
236 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
238 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
239 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
240 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
241 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
242 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
243 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
244 manual page for further information.
249 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
251 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
252 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
254 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
256 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
257 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
258 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
260 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
262 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
264 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
265 customization as well.
267 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
269 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
271 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
273 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
275 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
276 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
277 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
278 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
280 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
282 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
283 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
284 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
285 this variable to 10000.
290 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
291 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
293 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
295 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
296 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
297 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
298 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
299 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
300 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
301 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
302 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
303 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
306 Database revision tracking
308 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
309 query parser and the new function
310 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
312 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
316 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
317 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
318 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
319 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
324 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
326 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
327 ===========================
332 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
334 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
335 ===========================
340 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
342 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
343 =========================
345 Command-Line Interface
346 ----------------------
348 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
350 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
351 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
352 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
354 Path to gpg is now configurable
356 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
357 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
362 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
364 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
369 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
374 Support messages without Message-IDs.
379 Undeprecate single message mboxes
381 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
382 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
384 New error logging facility
386 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
387 output formerly printed to stderr.
389 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
391 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
393 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
395 Fix for rounding of seconds
400 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
402 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
403 docmumentation has been removed.
405 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
407 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
408 some material from the relicensed wiki.
413 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
414 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
415 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
420 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
421 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
422 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
423 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
424 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
425 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
428 git checkout config origin/config
430 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
432 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
433 =========================
438 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
439 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
440 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
441 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
442 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
443 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
444 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
446 Command-Line Interface
447 ----------------------
449 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
451 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
452 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
453 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
454 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
455 script callers should still check the return value.
457 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
459 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
460 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
461 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
462 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
463 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
464 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
465 and returning success even if indexing fails).
467 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
469 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
470 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
471 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
473 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
475 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
476 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
477 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
478 currently unmaintained.
480 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
482 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
483 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
484 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
485 have at least `N` files associated with them.
487 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
489 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
490 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
491 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
492 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
493 count of duplicate addresses.
498 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
500 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
501 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
502 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
505 Improved handling of the unread tag
507 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
508 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
509 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
510 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
511 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
512 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
513 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
515 Expanded default saved search settings
517 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
518 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
520 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
522 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
523 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
524 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
526 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
528 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
529 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
530 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
531 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
532 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
533 the variable for details.
538 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
540 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
541 Representing these independently of the database version number will
542 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
543 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
545 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
547 Previously, library users were required to call
548 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
549 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
550 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
551 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
552 too out of date for that API.
554 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
556 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
557 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
558 atomic section will be aborted.
560 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
561 `notmuch_database_destroy`
563 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
565 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
566 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
567 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
568 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
569 messages into the same thread.
574 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
575 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
576 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
577 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
578 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
579 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
584 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
585 from the config file. Use something like:
589 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
590 "footer": "</body></html>",
599 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
604 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
605 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
606 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
608 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
609 ===========================
614 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
616 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
618 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
620 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
621 structure for signatures changed slightly.
623 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
625 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
628 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
629 ===========================
631 This is a bug fix and portability release.
636 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
638 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
640 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
642 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
644 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
650 Use --quick when starting emacs
652 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
654 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
656 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
658 Command-Line Interface
659 ----------------------
661 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
662 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
667 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
669 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
670 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
672 Fix for phrase indexing
674 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
675 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
676 will affect only newly indexed messages.
681 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
683 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
684 unintentionally removed.
686 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
687 =========================
692 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
693 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
694 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
695 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
696 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
697 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
698 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
699 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
700 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
706 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
708 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
709 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
710 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
711 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
712 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
713 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
714 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
715 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
717 There is a new `path:` search prefix
719 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
720 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
721 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
722 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
725 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
727 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
728 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
729 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
730 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
731 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
732 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
733 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
738 Notmuch database upgrade
740 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
741 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
742 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
743 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
744 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
745 released version of Notmuch before now.
747 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
749 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
750 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
751 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
752 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
754 Message header parsing changes
756 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
757 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
758 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
759 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
760 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
761 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
763 Command-Line Interface
764 ----------------------
766 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
768 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
770 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
772 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
774 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
776 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
777 user does not want it.
779 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
781 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
782 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
783 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
784 support formatted output.
786 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
788 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
789 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
790 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
798 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
799 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
800 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
801 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
802 `~/.emacs` with these.
804 Changed format for saved searches
806 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
807 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
808 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
809 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
812 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
813 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
814 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
815 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
817 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
818 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
819 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
821 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
822 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
823 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
824 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
825 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
827 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
829 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
830 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
831 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
833 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
835 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
836 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
837 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
838 message had been unread).
840 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
841 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
842 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
843 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
845 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
846 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
847 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
849 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
850 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
851 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
852 to tags already present.
856 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
857 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
858 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
859 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
860 these differ from each other.
861 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
863 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
865 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
866 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
867 for these Emacs versions.
869 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
871 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
872 newlines before calling notmuch count.
874 Bug fixes for sender identities
876 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
877 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
878 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
880 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
882 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
883 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
884 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
885 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
887 Reply pushes mark before signature
889 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
890 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
891 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
893 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
895 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
896 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
902 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
903 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
905 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
906 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
907 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
908 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
910 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
911 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
912 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
913 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
914 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
916 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
918 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
919 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
921 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
922 =========================
924 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
925 ---------------------------------------
927 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
928 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
929 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
930 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
931 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
932 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
933 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
937 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
938 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
940 Command-Line Interface
941 ----------------------
943 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
945 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
946 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
947 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
948 print for each message.
950 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
951 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
952 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
953 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
955 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
957 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
958 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
959 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
961 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
963 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
964 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
965 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
966 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
968 `notmuch compact` command
970 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
971 functionality through a more convenient interface than
972 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
973 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
974 move the compacted database into place.
979 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
981 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
982 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
983 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
984 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
985 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
986 and multiple threads.
990 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
992 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
993 search, show and tree mode itself)
995 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
998 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
999 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1001 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1003 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1004 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1005 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1006 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1007 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1008 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1009 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1011 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1013 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1014 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1015 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1016 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1017 thread when the search was performed.
1019 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1021 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1022 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1023 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1025 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1027 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1028 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1031 Built-in help improvements
1033 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1034 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1035 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1037 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1039 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1040 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1041 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1043 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1045 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1046 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1048 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1050 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1051 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1052 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1053 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1055 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1057 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1058 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1059 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1060 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1062 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1064 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1065 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1066 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1068 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1070 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1071 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1072 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1074 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1076 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1077 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1078 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1079 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1080 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1082 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1084 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1085 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1086 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1087 the body part of the message.
1092 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1093 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1094 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1096 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1097 =========================
1099 Command-Line Interface
1100 ----------------------
1102 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1104 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1105 folder and notmuch index.
1107 `notmuch count --batch` option
1109 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1110 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1112 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1114 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1115 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1116 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1119 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1121 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1122 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1123 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1124 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1125 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1128 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1130 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1131 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1133 Top level option to specify configuration file
1135 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1136 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1138 Bash command-line completion
1140 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1141 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1142 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1143 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1144 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1145 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1146 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1147 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1148 bash-completion package.
1150 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1155 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1157 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1158 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1159 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1160 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1161 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1162 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1163 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1164 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1166 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1168 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1169 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1170 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1172 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1174 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1175 previous thread in the search results.
1177 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1179 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1180 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1182 Faster search and show
1184 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1185 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1186 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1187 threads should show faster.
1191 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1192 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1193 in question was now removed from this release.
1198 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1199 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1204 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1206 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1207 ===========================
1212 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1214 Internal test framework changes
1215 -------------------------------
1217 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1218 being unimplemented.
1220 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1221 ===========================
1223 Internal test framework changes
1224 -------------------------------
1226 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1227 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1229 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1230 =========================
1235 Date range search support
1237 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1238 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1239 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1240 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1241 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1244 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1246 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1247 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1248 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1249 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1250 but may be removed in a future release.
1252 Command-Line Interface
1253 ----------------------
1255 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1257 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1258 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1260 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1262 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1263 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1264 officially deprecated.
1266 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1268 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1269 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1270 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1272 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1274 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1275 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1278 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1279 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1280 dump/restore format.
1282 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1284 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1285 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1286 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1288 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1290 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1291 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1292 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1294 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1296 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1297 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1298 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1299 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1304 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1306 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1307 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1308 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1309 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1311 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1313 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1314 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1315 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1316 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1317 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1318 the behavior of this, see
1319 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1320 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1322 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1323 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1324 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1326 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1328 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1329 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1332 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1334 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1335 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1336 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1337 simply displayed in place of the message.
1339 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1341 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1342 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1344 Improved text/calendar content handling
1346 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1347 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1348 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1349 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1351 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1353 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1354 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1355 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1356 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1358 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1360 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1361 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1362 for HTML email containing images.
1364 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1366 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1368 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1370 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1373 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1375 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1376 the point where it was.
1378 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1380 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1381 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1382 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1383 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1384 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1386 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1388 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1389 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1390 thread instead of the message id.
1392 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1393 -----------------------------
1395 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1396 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1397 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1398 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1399 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1400 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1401 further details and installation.
1406 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1408 Internal test framework changes
1409 -------------------------------
1411 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1413 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1414 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1415 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1416 can result in buggy behavior.
1418 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1419 =========================
1424 Maildir tag synchronization
1426 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1427 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1428 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1429 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1430 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1431 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1434 Command-Line Interface
1435 ----------------------
1437 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1438 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1439 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1440 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1441 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1447 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1449 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1451 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1452 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1453 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1455 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1457 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1458 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1459 span multiple lines.
1461 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1463 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1464 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1465 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1466 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1467 inside the result or message.
1469 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1471 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1472 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1474 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1475 user-specified formatting
1477 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1478 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1479 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1480 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1481 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1483 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1484 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1486 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1487 ===========================
1492 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1493 compilation error for this contrib package.
1495 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1496 ===========================
1501 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1503 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1504 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1505 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1506 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1508 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1509 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1512 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1513 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1514 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1515 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1518 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1520 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1523 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1524 =========================
1526 Command-Line Interface
1527 ----------------------
1531 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1532 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1533 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1534 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1536 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1537 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1538 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1539 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1543 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1544 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1546 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1547 tag in your query, for example:
1549 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1551 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1552 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1554 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1555 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1557 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1559 Raw show format changes
1561 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1562 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1563 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1564 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1565 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1566 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1567 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1568 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1570 Listing configuration items
1572 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1578 Changes to tagging interface
1580 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1581 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1582 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1583 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1584 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1585 for more information.
1587 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1588 may need to update in custom configurations.
1590 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1592 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1593 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1594 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1595 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1598 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1599 -----------------------------
1601 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1602 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1603 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1604 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1605 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1606 contrib/ from now on.
1611 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1612 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1614 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1615 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1617 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1618 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1619 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1621 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1622 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1624 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1625 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1626 returning the new database object or directory object.
1633 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1634 compatible with go 1.
1636 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1637 =========================
1639 Command-Line Interface
1640 ----------------------
1644 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1645 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1646 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1647 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1649 Mail store folder/file ignore
1651 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1652 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1653 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1655 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1656 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1658 Unified help and manual pages
1660 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1661 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1664 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1666 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1667 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1675 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1676 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1677 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1678 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1680 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1682 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1683 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1685 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1688 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1689 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1690 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1692 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1694 should be changed to:
1696 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1698 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1700 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1701 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1703 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1705 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1706 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1707 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1708 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1709 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1710 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1714 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1715 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1716 of Mailing List Archives.
1718 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1720 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1721 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1724 Show view archiving key binding changes
1726 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1727 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1728 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1729 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1730 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1733 Support text/calendar MIME type
1735 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1738 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1740 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1741 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1742 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1743 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1745 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1747 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1748 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1749 messages blue by default in the search view.
1753 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1754 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1761 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1764 Python bindings changes
1765 -----------------------
1767 Python 3.2 compatibility
1769 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1771 Added missing unicode conversions
1773 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1774 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1775 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1780 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1782 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1783 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1784 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1785 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1786 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1788 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1789 ===========================
1794 Fix error handling in python bindings
1796 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1797 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1798 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1799 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1801 Quote MML tags in replies
1803 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1804 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1805 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1806 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1807 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1808 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1809 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1810 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1812 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1813 =========================
1815 Command-Line Interface
1816 ----------------------
1820 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1821 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1822 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1823 importing new messages into the database.
1825 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1827 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1828 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1829 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1834 Automatic tag query optimization
1836 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1837 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1838 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1840 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1842 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1843 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1844 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1849 Reduction of memory leaks
1851 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1852 and fixed in this release.
1859 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1860 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1861 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1864 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1866 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1867 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1868 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1871 Improvements in saved search management
1873 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1874 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1875 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1877 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1879 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1880 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1881 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1883 New face for crypto parts headers
1885 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1886 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1887 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1890 Use space as default thousands separator
1892 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1893 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1894 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1896 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1897 buttonized id: links
1899 New function notmuch-show-advance
1901 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1902 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1903 be bound to SPC with:
1905 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1907 Various performance improvements
1912 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1913 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1916 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1917 ===========================
1922 Fix crash in python bindings
1924 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1925 for some, but not all users.
1927 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1928 ===========================
1933 Fix `--help` argument
1935 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1936 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1937 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1939 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1940 =========================
1942 New build and testing features
1943 ------------------------------
1945 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1946 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1947 prerequisites is improved.
1949 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1951 New command-line features
1952 -------------------------
1954 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1956 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1957 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1960 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1962 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1963 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1964 favour of using stdout.
1966 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1968 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1969 limit the number of results shown.
1971 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1973 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1974 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1977 New emacs UI features
1978 ---------------------
1980 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1982 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1983 starting with "tag:".
1985 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1987 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1988 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1990 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1992 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1994 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1996 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1997 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2002 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2004 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2006 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2007 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2008 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2009 requires a database rebuild:
2011 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2012 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2014 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2016 New collection of add-on tools
2017 ------------------------------
2019 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2020 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2021 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2024 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2026 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2027 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2028 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2030 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2031 ========================
2033 New, general features
2034 ---------------------
2036 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2038 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2039 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2040 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2041 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2042 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2049 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2050 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2052 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2056 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2057 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2058 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2061 Python bindings changes
2062 -----------------------
2064 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2066 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2067 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2068 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2069 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2070 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2071 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2073 Ruby bindings changes
2074 ---------------------
2076 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2077 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2078 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2079 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2084 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2086 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2087 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2089 Reply formatting cleanup
2090 ------------------------
2092 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2093 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2095 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2096 ========================
2098 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2100 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2101 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2102 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2103 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2106 Improved Build system portability
2108 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2109 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2110 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2112 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2114 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2116 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2118 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2119 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2120 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2122 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2123 ========================
2125 Vim interface improvements
2126 --------------------------
2128 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2130 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2131 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2132 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2133 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2134 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2136 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2138 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2139 * fix compose temp file name
2141 Python Bindings changes
2142 -----------------------
2144 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2146 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2147 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2149 Build-System improvements
2150 -------------------------
2152 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2154 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2157 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2158 ==========================
2163 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2165 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2166 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2168 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2169 =======================
2171 New, general features
2172 ---------------------
2174 Folder-based searching
2176 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2177 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2178 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2182 For example, one might use things such as:
2188 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2189 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2191 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2192 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2193 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2194 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2196 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2197 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2198 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2201 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2202 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2204 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2206 Support for PGP/MIME
2208 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2209 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2210 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2212 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2214 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2215 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2217 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2218 notmuch will receive these tags.
2220 New command-line features
2221 -------------------------
2223 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2225 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2226 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2228 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2230 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2231 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2232 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2234 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2236 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2237 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2238 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2239 which parts a signature part applies).
2241 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2243 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2244 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2245 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2246 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2247 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2250 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2252 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2253 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2254 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2255 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2256 by translating it internally to the new call.
2258 Performance improvements
2259 ------------------------
2261 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2263 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2264 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2265 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2267 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2268 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2270 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2272 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2273 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2274 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2276 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2277 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2278 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2279 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2281 Faster initial indexing
2283 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2284 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2285 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2287 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2289 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2290 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2291 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2292 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2294 New emacs-interface features
2295 ----------------------------
2297 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2299 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2300 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2301 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2302 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2303 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2304 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2306 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2308 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2309 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2310 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2311 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2313 User-selectable From address
2315 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2316 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2317 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2318 will prompt for the from address to use.
2320 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2321 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2322 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2324 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2325 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2326 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2329 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2331 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2332 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2334 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2336 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2338 ----- Original Message -----
2340 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2341 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2342 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2343 citations work much like conventional citations.
2345 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2347 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2348 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2349 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2350 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2351 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2353 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2354 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2356 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2358 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2359 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2360 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2362 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2364 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2365 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2366 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2367 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2368 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2370 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2372 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2375 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2377 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2379 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2381 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2384 Vim interface improvements
2385 --------------------------
2387 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2389 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2390 * Implementing archive in show view
2391 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2392 * Add delete commands
2395 Bindings improvements
2396 ---------------------
2398 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2400 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2401 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2403 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2405 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2409 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2410 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2411 `list(Messages)` works now
2412 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2414 These allow, for example:
2416 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2418 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2420 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2426 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2428 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2431 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2433 New build-system features
2434 -------------------------
2436 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2438 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2439 the configure script from some other directory:
2446 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2448 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2449 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2450 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2451 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2452 manual invocation of configure.
2454 New test-suite feature
2455 ----------------------
2457 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2459 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2460 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2461 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2462 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2463 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2466 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2468 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2469 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2470 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2471 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2472 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2473 are updated to take advantage of this.
2475 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2477 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2478 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2479 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2480 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2486 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2488 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2489 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2490 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2492 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2494 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2496 to:user@elsewhere.com
2498 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2500 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2502 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2504 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2505 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2506 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2509 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2510 from the Received headers in some cases
2512 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2513 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2515 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2517 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2519 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2521 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2522 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2523 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2525 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2526 -------------------------
2528 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2530 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2531 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2532 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2534 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2536 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2537 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2538 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2541 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2543 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2544 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2545 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2546 fixed to avoid this bug.
2548 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2550 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2551 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2553 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2554 ========================
2556 New, general features
2557 ---------------------
2559 Maildir-flag synchronization
2561 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2562 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2571 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2573 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2574 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2575 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2576 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2578 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2579 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2580 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2581 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2584 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2586 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2587 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2588 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2590 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2591 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2593 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2594 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2596 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2597 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2598 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2600 New library features
2601 --------------------
2603 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2605 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2606 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2607 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2608 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2610 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2611 message with the new function:
2613 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2615 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2616 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2617 over all available filenames for a given message.
2619 New command-line features
2620 -------------------------
2622 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2624 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2625 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2626 access to the mail store itself.
2628 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2629 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2630 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2631 name of a script containing:
2633 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2635 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2636 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2642 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2644 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2646 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2648 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2649 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2650 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2651 now produces nothing).
2653 Emacs interface improvements
2654 ----------------------------
2656 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2658 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2660 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2662 Display current thread subject in a header line
2664 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2666 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2668 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2669 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2670 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2671 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2672 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2673 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2674 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2676 Vim interface improvements
2677 --------------------------
2679 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2681 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2682 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2688 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2690 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2691 ========================
2693 New command-line features
2694 -------------------------
2696 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2698 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2699 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2700 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2702 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2703 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2704 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2705 scripts. For example:
2707 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2708 <operations-on> "$file"
2711 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2713 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2714 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2715 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2716 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2717 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2718 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2720 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2722 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2723 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2724 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2725 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2727 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2729 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2730 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2731 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2732 default rather than Bcc.
2734 New library features
2735 --------------------
2737 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2739 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2740 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2745 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2747 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2748 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2749 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2750 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2751 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2752 notmuch customize interface.
2754 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2756 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2757 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2758 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2759 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2761 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2763 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2764 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2765 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2766 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2768 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2770 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2771 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2772 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2773 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2774 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2775 notmuch customize interface.
2777 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2779 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2780 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2781 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2782 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2783 notmuch customize interface.
2785 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2787 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2788 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2789 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2790 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2793 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2795 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2796 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2797 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2800 New build-system features
2801 -------------------------
2803 Various portability fixes have been applied
2805 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2806 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2807 more portable than ever before.
2809 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2811 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2812 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2813 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2815 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2816 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2817 automatically run ldconfig.
2819 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2820 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2821 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2823 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2824 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2825 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2826 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2828 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2830 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2831 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2832 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2833 used in the resulting Makefile.
2835 New test-suite features
2836 -----------------------
2838 New modularization of test suite
2840 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2841 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2842 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2843 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2844 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2845 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2846 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2847 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2849 New testing of emacs interface
2851 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2852 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2853 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2854 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2855 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2856 database via the FCC setting.
2861 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2863 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2864 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2865 persistent error of the form:
2867 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2869 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2870 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2872 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2874 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2875 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2876 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2878 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2880 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2881 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2882 parsing the notmuch results).
2884 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2886 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2889 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2890 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2891 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2896 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2898 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2899 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2900 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2901 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2902 the emacs interface.
2904 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2906 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2907 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2908 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2910 Python-binding fixes
2911 --------------------
2913 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2915 Debian-specific fixes
2916 ---------------------
2918 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2920 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2921 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2922 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2925 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2926 ==========================
2931 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2933 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2934 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2935 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2936 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2938 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2940 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2941 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2942 want notmuch to crash.
2947 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2949 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2950 directory does not exist
2955 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2957 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2958 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2960 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2961 ========================
2963 New command-line features
2964 -------------------------
2966 User-configurable tags for new messages
2968 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2969 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2970 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2971 to specify this value.
2973 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2975 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2976 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2977 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2979 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2981 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2982 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2984 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2986 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2987 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2988 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2989 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2990 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2993 Indication of author names that match a search
2995 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2996 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2997 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2998 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2999 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3000 messages in the thread are listed first.
3002 New: Python bindings
3003 --------------------
3005 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3006 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3007 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3008 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3010 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3011 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3012 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3015 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3016 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3017 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3019 Emacs interface improvements
3020 ----------------------------
3022 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3024 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3025 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3026 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3027 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3028 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3029 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3030 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3031 but without any of the disadvantages).
3033 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3034 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3035 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3038 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3039 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3040 instead running something like:
3042 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3044 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3045 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3046 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3049 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3051 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3052 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3053 tweaked by the user.
3055 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3056 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3057 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3060 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3061 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3062 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3065 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3067 This support currently relies on an external program,
3068 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3069 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3070 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3071 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3072 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3075 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3076 notmuch) is available via:
3078 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3080 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3081 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3082 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3084 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3086 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3087 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3088 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3089 making this automatic in a future release.
3091 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3093 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3094 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3095 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3096 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3097 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3098 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3101 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3103 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3104 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3105 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3107 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3109 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3110 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3111 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3113 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3114 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3115 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3116 other representation.
3118 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3119 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3122 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3124 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3125 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3126 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3128 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3129 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3130 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3132 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3134 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3135 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3136 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3137 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3138 to display the search result.
3140 More flexible handling of header visibility
3142 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3143 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3144 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3145 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3146 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3147 with the 'h' keybinding.
3149 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3150 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3151 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3153 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3155 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3157 Customizable formatting of search results
3159 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3160 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3161 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3163 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3165 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3167 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3172 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3174 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3175 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3176 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3177 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3183 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3185 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3186 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3188 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3190 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3191 accept are now all accepted.
3196 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3198 Better display of output from failed tests
3200 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3201 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3203 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3204 ========================
3206 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3207 detailed release notes this time!
3209 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3210 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3212 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3213 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3214 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3215 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3222 Better guessing of From: header
3224 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3225 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3226 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3227 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3228 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3231 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3233 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3234 guaranteed to match all messages.
3236 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3238 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3239 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3240 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3241 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3242 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3245 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3248 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3249 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3250 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3251 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3256 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3258 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3259 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3260 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3261 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3263 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3265 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3267 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3268 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3269 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3271 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3273 Previously, the user might see:
3275 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3279 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3281 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3282 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3283 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3284 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3286 Emacs client features
3287 ---------------------
3289 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3291 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3292 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3293 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3294 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3295 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3297 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3300 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3301 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3302 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3303 search with the '*' binding.
3305 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3307 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3308 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3311 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3313 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3314 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3315 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3317 Build-system features
3318 ---------------------
3320 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3322 Add support to configure for many standard options
3324 We include actual support for:
3326 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3328 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3330 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3331 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3333 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3334 separate "make install-emacs"
3336 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3338 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3339 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3340 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3342 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3345 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3346 ========================
3348 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3350 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3351 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3353 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3354 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3355 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3356 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3357 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3358 tags from messages in a thread.
3365 indent-tabs-mode: nil