1 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2 ===========================
7 Fix crash in python bindings.
9 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
10 for some, but not all users.
12 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
13 ===========================
20 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
21 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
24 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
25 =========================
27 New build and testing features
28 ------------------------------
30 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
31 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
32 prerequisites is improved.
34 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
36 New command-line features
37 -------------------------
39 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
41 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
42 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
45 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
47 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
48 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
49 favour of using stdout.
51 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
53 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
54 the number of results shown.
56 Add "notmuch count --output" option
58 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
59 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
64 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
66 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
69 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
71 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
72 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
74 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
76 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
78 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
80 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
81 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
86 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
88 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
90 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
91 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
92 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
93 requires a database rebuild:
95 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
96 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
98 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
100 New collection of add-on tools
101 ------------------------------
103 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
104 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
105 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
108 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
110 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
111 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
112 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
114 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
115 ========================
117 New, general features
118 ---------------------
120 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
122 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
123 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
124 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
125 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
126 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
133 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
134 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
136 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
140 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
141 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
142 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
145 Python bindings changes
146 -----------------------
148 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
150 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
151 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
152 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
153 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
154 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
155 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
157 Ruby bindings changes
158 ---------------------
160 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
161 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
162 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
163 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
168 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
170 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
171 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
173 Reply formatting cleanup
174 ------------------------
176 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
177 MIME parts are being suppressed.
179 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
180 ========================
182 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
184 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
185 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
186 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
187 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
190 Improved Build system portability
192 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
193 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
194 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
196 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
198 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
200 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
202 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
203 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
204 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
206 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
207 ========================
209 Vim interface improvements
210 --------------------------
212 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
214 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
215 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
216 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
217 * fix from list reformatting in search view
218 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
220 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
222 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
223 * fix compose temp file name
225 Python Bindings changes
226 -----------------------
228 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
230 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
231 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
233 Build-System improvements
234 ------------------------
236 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
238 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
241 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
242 ==========================
247 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
249 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
250 people running gcc 4.4.5.
252 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
253 =======================
254 New, general features
255 ---------------------
256 Folder-based searching
258 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
259 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
260 storage). The syntax is as follows:
264 For example, one might use things such as:
270 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
271 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
273 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
274 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
275 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
276 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
278 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
279 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
280 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
283 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
284 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
286 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
290 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
291 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
292 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
294 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
296 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
297 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
299 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
300 notmuch will receive these tags.
302 New command-line features
303 -------------------------
304 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
306 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
307 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
309 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
311 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
312 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
313 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
315 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
317 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
318 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
319 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
320 which parts a signature part applies).
322 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
324 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
325 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
326 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
327 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
328 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
331 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
333 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
334 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
335 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
336 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
337 by translating it internally to the new call.
339 Performance improvements
340 ------------------------
341 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
343 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
344 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
345 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
347 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
348 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
350 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
352 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
353 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
354 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
356 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
357 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
358 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
359 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
361 Faster initial indexing
363 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
364 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
365 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
367 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
369 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
370 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
371 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
372 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
374 New emacs-interface features
375 ----------------------------
377 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
379 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
380 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
381 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
382 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
383 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
384 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
386 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
388 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
389 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
390 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
391 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
393 User-selectable From address
395 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
396 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
397 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
398 will prompt for the from address to use.
400 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
401 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
402 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
404 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
405 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
406 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
409 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
411 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
412 its parent, the subject is not shown.
414 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
416 When a message contains a line looking something like:
418 ----- Original Message -----
420 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
421 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
422 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
423 citations work much like conventional citations.
425 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
427 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
428 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
429 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
430 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
431 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
433 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
434 Notmuch After Tag Hook
436 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
438 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
439 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
440 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
442 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
444 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
445 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
446 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
447 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
448 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
450 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
452 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
455 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
457 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
459 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
460 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
462 Vim interface improvements
463 --------------------------
464 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
466 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
467 * Implementing archive in show view
468 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
469 * Add delete commands
472 Bindings improvements
473 ---------------------
474 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
476 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
477 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
479 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
480 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
483 - Message().get_filenames(),
484 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
485 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
487 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
488 These allow, for example:
491 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
493 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
498 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
499 Use len(list(Messages())) or
500 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
502 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
504 New build-system features
505 -------------------------
506 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
508 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
509 the configure script from some other directory:
516 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
518 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
519 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
520 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
521 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
522 manual invocation of configure.
524 New test-suite feature
525 ----------------------
526 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
528 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
529 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
530 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
531 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
532 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
535 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
537 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
538 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
539 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
540 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
541 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
542 are updated to take advantage of this.
544 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
546 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
547 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
548 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
549 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
554 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
556 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
557 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
558 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
560 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
562 This fixed a bug where a search for:
564 to:user@elsewhere.com
566 would incorrectly match a message sent:
568 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
570 Fix --output=json when search has no results
572 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
573 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
574 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
577 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
578 from the Received headers in some cases.
580 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
581 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
583 Cleaned up several memory leaks
585 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
587 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
589 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
590 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
591 interface and were never intended to be exported.
593 Emacs-interface bug fixes
594 -------------------------
595 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
597 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
598 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
599 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
601 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
603 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
604 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
605 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
608 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
610 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
611 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
612 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
613 fixed to avoid this bug.
615 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
617 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
618 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
620 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
621 ========================
622 New, general features
623 ---------------------
624 Maildir-flag synchronization
626 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
627 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
636 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
638 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
639 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
640 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
641 renamed with an 'R' flag).
643 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
644 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
645 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
646 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
649 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
651 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
652 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
653 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
655 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
656 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
658 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
659 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
661 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
662 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
663 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
667 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
669 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
670 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
671 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
672 notmuch_message_get_filename).
674 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
675 message with the new function:
677 notmuch_message_get_filenames
679 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
680 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
681 all available filenames for a given message.
683 New command-line features
684 -------------------------
685 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
687 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
688 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
689 access to the mail store itself.
691 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
692 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
693 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
694 name of a script containing:
696 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
698 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
699 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
704 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
706 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
708 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
710 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
711 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
712 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
713 now produces nothing).
715 Emacs interface improvements
716 ----------------------------
717 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
719 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
721 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
723 Display current thread subject in a header line.
725 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
727 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
729 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
730 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
731 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
732 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
733 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
734 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
735 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
737 Vim interface improvements
738 --------------------------
739 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
741 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
742 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
747 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
749 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
750 ========================
751 New command-line features
752 -------------------------
753 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
755 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
756 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
757 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
759 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
760 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
761 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
762 scripts. For example:
764 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
765 <operations-on> "$file"
768 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
770 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
771 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
772 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
773 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
774 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
775 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
777 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
779 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
780 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
781 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
782 custom items stored in the configuration file.
784 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
786 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
787 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
788 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
789 default rather than Bcc.
793 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
795 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
796 notmuch_query_t object.
800 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
802 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
803 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
804 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
805 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
806 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
807 notmuch customize interface.
809 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
811 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
812 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
813 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
814 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
816 Optional support for detecting inline patches
818 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
819 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
820 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
821 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
823 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
825 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
826 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
827 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
828 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
829 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
830 notmuch customize interface.
832 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
834 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
835 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
836 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
837 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
838 notmuch customize interface.
840 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
842 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
843 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
844 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
845 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
848 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
850 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
851 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
852 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
855 New build-system features
856 -------------------------
857 Various portability fixes have been applied
859 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
860 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
861 more portable than ever before.
863 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
865 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
866 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
867 after installing. This support takes two forms:
869 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
870 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
871 automatically run ldconfig.
873 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
874 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
875 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
877 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
878 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
879 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
880 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
882 Check compiler/linker options before using them
884 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
885 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
886 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
887 used in the resulting Makefile.
889 New test-suite features
890 -----------------------
891 New modularization of test suite.
893 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
894 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
895 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
896 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
897 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
898 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
899 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
900 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
902 New testing of emacs interface.
904 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
905 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
906 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
907 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
908 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
909 database via the FCC setting.
913 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
915 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
916 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
917 persistent error of the form:
919 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
921 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
922 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
924 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
926 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
927 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
928 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
930 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
932 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
933 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
934 parsing the notmuch results).
936 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
938 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
940 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
941 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
942 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
946 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
948 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
949 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
950 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
951 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
954 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
956 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
957 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
958 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
962 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
964 Debian-specific fixes
965 ---------------------
966 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
968 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
969 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
970 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
973 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
974 ==========================
977 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
979 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
980 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
981 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
982 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
984 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
986 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
987 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
988 want notmuch to crash.
992 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
994 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
995 directory does not exist.
999 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1001 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1002 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1004 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1005 ========================
1006 New command-line features
1007 -------------------------
1008 User-configurable tags for new messages
1010 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1011 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1012 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1013 to specify this value.
1015 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1017 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1018 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1019 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1021 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1023 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1024 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1026 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1028 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1029 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1030 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1031 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1032 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1035 Indication of author names that match a search
1037 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1038 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1039 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1040 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1041 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1042 messages in the thread are listed first.
1044 New: Python bindings
1045 --------------------
1046 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1047 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1048 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1049 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1051 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1052 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1053 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1056 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1057 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1058 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1060 Emacs interface improvements
1061 ----------------------------
1062 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1064 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1065 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1066 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1067 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1068 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1069 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1070 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1071 but without any of the disadvantages).
1073 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1074 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1075 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1078 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1079 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1080 recommend instead running something like:
1082 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1084 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1085 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1086 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1089 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1091 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1092 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1093 tweaked by the user.
1095 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1096 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1097 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1100 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1101 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1102 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1105 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1107 This support currently relies on an external program,
1108 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1109 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1110 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1111 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1112 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1115 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1116 notmuch) is available via:
1118 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1120 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1121 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1122 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1124 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1126 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1127 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1128 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1129 making this automatic in a future release.
1131 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1133 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1134 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1135 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1136 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1137 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1138 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1141 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1143 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1144 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1145 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1147 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1149 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1150 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1151 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1153 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1154 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1155 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1156 other representation.
1158 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1159 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1162 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1164 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1165 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1166 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1168 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1169 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1170 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1172 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1174 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1175 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1176 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1177 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1178 to display the search result.
1180 More flexible handling of header visibility
1182 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1183 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1184 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1185 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1186 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1187 with the 'h' keybinding.
1189 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1190 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1191 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1193 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1195 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1197 Customizable formatting of search results
1199 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1200 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1201 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1203 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1205 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1207 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1211 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1213 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1214 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1215 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1216 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1221 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1223 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1224 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1226 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1228 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1229 accept are now all accepted.
1233 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1235 Better display of output from failed tests.
1237 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1238 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1240 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1241 ========================
1242 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1243 detailed release notes this time!
1245 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1246 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1248 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1249 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1250 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1251 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1257 Better guessing of From: header.
1259 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1260 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1261 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1262 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1263 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1266 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1268 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1269 guaranteed to match all messages.
1271 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1273 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1274 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1275 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1276 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1277 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1280 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1283 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1284 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1285 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1286 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1290 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1292 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1293 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1294 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1295 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1297 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1299 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1301 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1302 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1303 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1305 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1307 Previously, the user might see:
1309 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1313 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1315 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1316 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1317 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1318 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1320 Emacs client features
1321 ---------------------
1322 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1324 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1325 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1326 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1327 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1328 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1330 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1333 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1334 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1335 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1336 search with the '*' binding.
1338 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1340 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1341 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1344 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1346 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1347 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1348 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1350 Build-system features
1351 ---------------------
1352 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1354 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1356 We include actual support for:
1358 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1360 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1362 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1363 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1365 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1366 separate "make install-emacs".
1368 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1370 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1371 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1372 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1374 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1377 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1378 ========================
1379 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1381 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1382 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1384 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1385 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1386 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1387 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1388 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1389 tags from messages in a thread.