1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
22 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
23 notmuch_database_destroy
28 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
29 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
30 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
31 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
32 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
33 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
38 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
39 from the config file. Use something like:
43 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
44 "footer": "</body></html>",
53 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
58 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
59 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
60 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
62 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
63 ===========================
68 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
70 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
72 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
74 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
75 structure for signatures changed slightly.
77 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
79 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
82 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
83 ===========================
85 This is a bug fix and portability release.
90 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
92 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
94 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
96 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
98 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
104 Use --quick when starting emacs
106 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
108 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
110 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
112 Command-Line Interface
113 ----------------------
115 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
116 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
121 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
123 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
124 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
126 Fix for phrase indexing
128 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
129 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
130 will affect only newly indexed messages.
135 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
137 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
138 unintentionally removed.
140 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
141 =========================
146 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
147 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
148 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
149 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
150 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
151 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
152 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
153 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
154 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
160 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
162 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
163 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
164 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
165 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
166 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
167 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
168 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
169 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
171 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
173 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
174 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
175 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
176 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
179 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
181 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
182 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
183 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
184 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
185 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
186 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
187 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
192 Notmuch database upgrade
194 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
195 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
196 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
197 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
198 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
199 released version of Notmuch before now.
201 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
203 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
204 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
205 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
206 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
208 Message header parsing changes
210 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
211 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
212 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
213 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
214 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
215 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
217 Command-Line Interface
218 ----------------------
220 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
222 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
224 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
226 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
228 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
230 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
231 user does not want it.
233 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
235 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
236 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
237 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
238 support formatted output.
240 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
242 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
243 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
244 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
252 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
253 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
254 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
255 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
256 `~/.emacs` with these.
258 Changed format for saved searches
260 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
261 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
262 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
263 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
266 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
267 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
268 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
269 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
271 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
272 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
273 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
275 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
276 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
277 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
278 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
279 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
281 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
283 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
284 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
285 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
287 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
289 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
290 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
291 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
292 message had been unread).
294 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
295 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
296 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
297 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
299 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
300 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
301 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
303 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
304 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
305 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
306 to tags already present.
310 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
311 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
312 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
313 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
314 these differ from each other.
315 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
317 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
319 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
320 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
321 for these Emacs versions.
323 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
325 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
326 newlines before calling notmuch count.
328 Bug fixes for sender identities
330 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
331 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
332 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
334 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
336 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
337 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
338 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
339 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
341 Reply pushes mark before signature
343 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
344 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
345 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
347 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
349 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
350 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
356 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
357 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
359 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
360 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
361 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
362 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
364 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
365 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
366 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
367 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
368 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
370 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
372 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
373 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
375 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
376 =========================
378 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
379 ---------------------------------------
381 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
382 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
383 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
384 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
385 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
386 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
387 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
391 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
392 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
394 Command-Line Interface
395 ----------------------
397 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
399 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
400 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
401 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
402 print for each message.
404 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
405 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
406 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
407 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
409 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
411 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
412 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
413 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
415 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
417 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
418 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
419 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
420 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
422 `notmuch compact` command
424 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
425 functionality through a more convenient interface than
426 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
427 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
428 move the compacted database into place.
433 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
435 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
436 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
437 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
438 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
439 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
440 and multiple threads.
444 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
446 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
447 search, show and tree mode itself)
449 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
452 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
453 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
455 Customising `notmuch-tree`
457 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
458 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
459 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
460 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
461 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
462 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
463 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
465 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
467 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
468 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
469 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
470 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
471 thread when the search was performed.
473 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
475 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
476 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
477 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
479 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
481 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
482 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
485 Built-in help improvements
487 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
488 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
489 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
491 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
493 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
494 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
495 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
497 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
499 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
500 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
502 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
504 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
505 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
506 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
507 to move some of them to the common keymap.
509 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
511 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
512 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
513 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
514 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
516 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
518 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
519 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
520 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
522 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
524 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
525 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
526 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
528 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
530 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
531 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
532 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
533 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
534 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
536 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
538 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
539 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
540 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
541 the body part of the message.
546 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
547 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
548 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
550 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
551 =========================
553 Command-Line Interface
554 ----------------------
556 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
558 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
559 folder and notmuch index.
561 `notmuch count --batch` option
563 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
564 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
566 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
568 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
569 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
570 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
573 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
575 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
576 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
577 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
578 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
579 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
582 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
584 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
585 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
587 Top level option to specify configuration file
589 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
590 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
592 Bash command-line completion
594 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
595 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
596 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
597 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
598 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
599 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
600 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
601 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
602 bash-completion package.
604 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
609 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
611 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
612 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
613 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
614 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
615 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
616 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
617 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
618 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
620 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
622 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
623 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
624 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
626 Key bindings for next/previous thread
628 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
629 previous thread in the search results.
631 Better handling of errors in search buffers
633 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
634 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
636 Faster search and show
638 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
639 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
640 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
641 threads should show faster.
645 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
646 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
647 in question was now removed from this release.
652 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
653 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
658 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
660 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
661 ===========================
666 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
668 Internal test framework changes
669 -------------------------------
671 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
674 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
675 ===========================
677 Internal test framework changes
678 -------------------------------
680 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
681 build failures in non-interactive environments.
683 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
684 =========================
689 Date range search support
691 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
692 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
693 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
694 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
695 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
698 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
700 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
701 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
702 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
703 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
704 but may be removed in a future release.
706 Command-Line Interface
707 ----------------------
709 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
711 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
712 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
714 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
716 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
717 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
718 officially deprecated.
720 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
722 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
723 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
724 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
726 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
728 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
729 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
732 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
733 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
736 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
738 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
739 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
740 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
742 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
744 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
745 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
746 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
748 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
750 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
751 output separated by null characters rather than newline
752 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
753 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
758 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
760 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
761 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
762 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
763 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
765 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
767 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
768 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
769 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
770 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
771 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
772 the behavior of this, see
773 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
774 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
776 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
777 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
778 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
780 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
782 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
783 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
786 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
788 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
789 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
790 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
791 simply displayed in place of the message.
793 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
795 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
796 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
798 Improved text/calendar content handling
800 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
801 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
802 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
803 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
805 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
807 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
808 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
809 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
810 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
812 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
814 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
815 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
816 for HTML email containing images.
818 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
820 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
822 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
824 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
827 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
829 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
830 the point where it was.
832 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
834 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
835 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
836 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
837 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
838 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
840 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
842 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
843 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
844 thread instead of the message id.
846 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
847 -----------------------------
849 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
850 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
851 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
852 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
853 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
854 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
855 further details and installation.
860 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
862 Internal test framework changes
863 -------------------------------
865 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
867 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
868 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
869 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
870 can result in buggy behavior.
872 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
873 =========================
878 Maildir tag synchronization
880 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
881 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
882 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
883 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
884 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
885 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
888 Command-Line Interface
889 ----------------------
891 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
892 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
893 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
894 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
895 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
901 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
903 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
905 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
906 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
907 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
909 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
911 It is now possible to embed newlines in
912 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
915 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
917 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
918 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
919 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
920 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
921 inside the result or message.
923 Search now uses the JSON format internally
925 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
926 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
928 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
929 user-specified formatting
931 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
932 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
933 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
934 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
935 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
937 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
938 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
940 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
941 ===========================
946 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
947 compilation error for this contrib package.
949 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
950 ===========================
955 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
957 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
958 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
959 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
960 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
962 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
963 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
966 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
967 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
968 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
969 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
972 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
974 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
977 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
978 =========================
980 Command-Line Interface
981 ----------------------
985 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
986 for a reply message and full information about the original message
987 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
988 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
990 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
991 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
992 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
993 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
997 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
998 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1000 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1001 tag in your query, for example:
1003 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1005 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1006 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1008 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1009 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1011 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1013 Raw show format changes
1015 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1016 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1017 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1018 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1019 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1020 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1021 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1022 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1024 Listing configuration items
1026 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1032 Changes to tagging interface
1034 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1035 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1036 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1037 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1038 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1039 for more information.
1041 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1042 may need to update in custom configurations.
1044 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1046 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1047 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1048 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1049 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1052 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1053 -----------------------------
1055 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1056 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1057 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1058 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1059 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1060 contrib/ from now on.
1065 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1066 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1068 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1069 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1071 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1072 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1073 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1075 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1076 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1078 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1079 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1080 returning the new database object or directory object.
1087 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1088 compatible with go 1.
1090 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1091 =========================
1093 Command-Line Interface
1094 ----------------------
1098 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1099 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1100 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1101 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1103 Mail store folder/file ignore
1105 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1106 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1107 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1109 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1110 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1112 Unified help and manual pages
1114 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1115 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1118 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1120 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1121 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1129 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1130 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1131 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1132 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1134 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1136 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1137 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1139 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1142 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1143 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1144 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1146 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1148 should be changed to:
1150 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1152 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1154 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1155 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1157 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1159 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1160 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1161 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1162 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1163 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1164 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1168 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1169 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1170 of Mailing List Archives.
1172 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1174 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1175 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1178 Show view archiving key binding changes
1180 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1181 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1182 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1183 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1184 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1187 Support text/calendar MIME type
1189 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1192 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1194 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1195 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1196 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1197 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1199 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1201 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1202 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1203 messages blue by default in the search view.
1207 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1208 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1215 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1218 Python bindings changes
1219 -----------------------
1221 Python 3.2 compatibility
1223 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1225 Added missing unicode conversions
1227 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1228 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1229 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1234 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1236 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1237 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1238 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1239 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1240 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1242 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1243 ===========================
1248 Fix error handling in python bindings
1250 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1251 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1252 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1253 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1255 Quote MML tags in replies
1257 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1258 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1259 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1260 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1261 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1262 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1263 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1264 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1266 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1267 =========================
1269 Command-Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1274 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1275 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1276 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1277 importing new messages into the database.
1279 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1281 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1282 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1283 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1288 Automatic tag query optimization
1290 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1291 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1292 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1294 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1296 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1297 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1298 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1303 Reduction of memory leaks
1305 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1306 and fixed in this release.
1313 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1314 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1315 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1318 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1320 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1321 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1322 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1325 Improvements in saved search management
1327 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1328 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1329 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1331 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1333 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1334 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1335 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1337 New face for crypto parts headers
1339 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1340 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1341 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1344 Use space as default thousands separator
1346 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1347 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1348 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1350 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1351 buttonized id: links
1353 New function notmuch-show-advance
1355 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1356 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1357 be bound to SPC with:
1359 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1361 Various performance improvements
1366 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1367 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1370 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1371 ===========================
1376 Fix crash in python bindings
1378 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1379 for some, but not all users.
1381 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1382 ===========================
1387 Fix `--help` argument
1389 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1390 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1391 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1393 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1394 =========================
1396 New build and testing features
1397 ------------------------------
1399 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1400 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1401 prerequisites is improved.
1403 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1405 New command-line features
1406 -------------------------
1408 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1410 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1411 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1414 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1416 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1417 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1418 favour of using stdout.
1420 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1422 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1423 limit the number of results shown.
1425 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1427 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1428 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1431 New emacs UI features
1432 ---------------------
1434 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1436 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1437 starting with "tag:".
1439 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1441 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1442 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1444 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1446 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1448 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1450 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1451 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1456 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1458 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1460 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1461 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1462 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1463 requires a database rebuild:
1465 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1466 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1468 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1470 New collection of add-on tools
1471 ------------------------------
1473 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1474 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1475 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1478 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1480 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1481 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1482 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1484 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1485 ========================
1487 New, general features
1488 ---------------------
1490 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1492 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1493 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1494 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1495 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1496 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1503 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1504 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1506 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1510 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1511 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1512 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1515 Python bindings changes
1516 -----------------------
1518 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1520 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1521 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1522 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1523 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1524 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1525 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1527 Ruby bindings changes
1528 ---------------------
1530 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1531 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1532 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1533 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1538 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1540 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1541 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1543 Reply formatting cleanup
1544 ------------------------
1546 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1547 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1549 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1550 ========================
1552 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1554 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1555 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1556 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1557 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1560 Improved Build system portability
1562 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1563 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1564 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1566 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1568 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1570 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1572 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1573 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1574 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1576 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1577 ========================
1579 Vim interface improvements
1580 --------------------------
1582 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1584 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1585 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1586 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1587 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1588 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1590 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1592 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1593 * fix compose temp file name
1595 Python Bindings changes
1596 -----------------------
1598 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1600 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1601 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1603 Build-System improvements
1604 -------------------------
1606 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1608 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1611 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1612 ==========================
1617 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1619 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1620 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1622 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1623 =======================
1625 New, general features
1626 ---------------------
1628 Folder-based searching
1630 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1631 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1632 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1636 For example, one might use things such as:
1642 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1643 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1645 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1646 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1647 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1648 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1650 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1651 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1652 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1655 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1656 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1658 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1660 Support for PGP/MIME
1662 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1663 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1664 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1666 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1668 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1669 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1671 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1672 notmuch will receive these tags.
1674 New command-line features
1675 -------------------------
1677 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1679 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1680 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1682 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1684 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1685 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1686 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1688 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1690 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1691 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1692 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1693 which parts a signature part applies).
1695 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1697 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1698 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1699 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1700 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1701 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1704 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1706 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1707 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1708 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1709 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1710 by translating it internally to the new call.
1712 Performance improvements
1713 ------------------------
1715 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1717 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1718 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1719 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1721 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1722 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1724 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1726 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1727 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1728 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1730 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1731 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1732 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1733 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1735 Faster initial indexing
1737 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1738 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1739 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1741 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1743 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1744 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1745 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1746 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1748 New emacs-interface features
1749 ----------------------------
1751 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1753 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1754 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1755 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1756 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1757 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1758 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1760 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1762 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1763 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1764 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1765 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1767 User-selectable From address
1769 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1770 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1771 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1772 will prompt for the from address to use.
1774 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1775 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1776 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1778 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1779 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1780 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1783 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1785 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1786 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1788 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1790 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1792 ----- Original Message -----
1794 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1795 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1796 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1797 citations work much like conventional citations.
1799 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1801 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1802 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1803 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1804 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1805 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1807 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1808 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1810 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1812 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1813 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1814 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1816 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1818 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1819 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1820 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1821 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1822 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1824 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1826 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1829 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1831 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1833 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1835 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1838 Vim interface improvements
1839 --------------------------
1841 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1843 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1844 * Implementing archive in show view
1845 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1846 * Add delete commands
1849 Bindings improvements
1850 ---------------------
1852 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1854 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1855 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1857 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1859 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1863 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1864 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1865 `list(Messages)` works now
1866 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1868 These allow, for example:
1870 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1872 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1874 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1880 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1882 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1885 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1887 New build-system features
1888 -------------------------
1890 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1892 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1893 the configure script from some other directory:
1900 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1902 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1903 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1904 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1905 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1906 manual invocation of configure.
1908 New test-suite feature
1909 ----------------------
1911 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1913 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1914 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1915 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1916 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1917 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1920 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1922 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1923 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1924 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1925 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1926 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1927 are updated to take advantage of this.
1929 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1931 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1932 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1933 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1934 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1940 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1942 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1943 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1944 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1946 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1948 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1950 to:user@elsewhere.com
1952 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1954 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1956 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1958 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1959 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1960 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1963 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1964 from the Received headers in some cases
1966 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1967 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1969 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1971 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1973 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1975 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1976 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1977 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1979 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1980 -------------------------
1982 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1984 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1985 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1986 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1988 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1990 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1991 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1992 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1995 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1997 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1998 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1999 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2000 fixed to avoid this bug.
2002 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2004 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2005 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2007 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2008 ========================
2010 New, general features
2011 ---------------------
2013 Maildir-flag synchronization
2015 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2016 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2025 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2027 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2028 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2029 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2030 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2032 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2033 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2034 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2035 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2038 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2040 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2041 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2042 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2044 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2045 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2047 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2048 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2050 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2051 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2052 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2054 New library features
2055 --------------------
2057 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2059 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2060 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2061 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2062 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2064 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2065 message with the new function:
2067 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2069 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2070 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2071 over all available filenames for a given message.
2073 New command-line features
2074 -------------------------
2076 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2078 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2079 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2080 access to the mail store itself.
2082 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2083 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2084 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2085 name of a script containing:
2087 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2089 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2090 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2096 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2098 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2100 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2102 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2103 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2104 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2105 now produces nothing).
2107 Emacs interface improvements
2108 ----------------------------
2110 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2112 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2114 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2116 Display current thread subject in a header line
2118 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2120 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2122 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2123 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2124 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2125 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2126 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2127 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2128 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2130 Vim interface improvements
2131 --------------------------
2133 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2135 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2136 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2142 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2144 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2145 ========================
2147 New command-line features
2148 -------------------------
2150 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2152 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2153 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2154 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2156 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2157 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2158 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2159 scripts. For example:
2161 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2162 <operations-on> "$file"
2165 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2167 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2168 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2169 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2170 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2171 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2172 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2174 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2176 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2177 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2178 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2179 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2181 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2183 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2184 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2185 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2186 default rather than Bcc.
2188 New library features
2189 --------------------
2191 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2193 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2194 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2199 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2201 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2202 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2203 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2204 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2205 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2206 notmuch customize interface.
2208 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2210 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2211 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2212 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2213 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2215 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2217 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2218 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2219 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2220 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2222 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2224 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2225 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2226 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2227 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2228 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2229 notmuch customize interface.
2231 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2233 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2234 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2235 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2236 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2237 notmuch customize interface.
2239 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2241 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2242 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2243 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2244 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2247 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2249 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2250 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2251 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2254 New build-system features
2255 -------------------------
2257 Various portability fixes have been applied
2259 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2260 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2261 more portable than ever before.
2263 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2265 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2266 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2267 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2269 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2270 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2271 automatically run ldconfig.
2273 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2274 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2275 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2277 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2278 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2279 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2280 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2282 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2284 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2285 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2286 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2287 used in the resulting Makefile.
2289 New test-suite features
2290 -----------------------
2292 New modularization of test suite
2294 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2295 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2296 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2297 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2298 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2299 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2300 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2301 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2303 New testing of emacs interface
2305 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2306 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2307 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2308 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2309 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2310 database via the FCC setting.
2315 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2317 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2318 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2319 persistent error of the form:
2321 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2323 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2324 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2326 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2328 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2329 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2330 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2332 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2334 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2335 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2336 parsing the notmuch results).
2338 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2340 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2343 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2344 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2345 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2350 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2352 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2353 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2354 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2355 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2356 the emacs interface.
2358 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2360 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2361 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2362 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2364 Python-binding fixes
2365 --------------------
2367 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2369 Debian-specific fixes
2370 ---------------------
2372 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2374 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2375 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2376 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2379 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2380 ==========================
2385 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2387 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2388 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2389 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2390 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2392 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2394 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2395 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2396 want notmuch to crash.
2401 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2403 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2404 directory does not exist
2409 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2411 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2412 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2414 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2415 ========================
2417 New command-line features
2418 -------------------------
2420 User-configurable tags for new messages
2422 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2423 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2424 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2425 to specify this value.
2427 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2429 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2430 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2431 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2433 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2435 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2436 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2438 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2440 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2441 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2442 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2443 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2444 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2447 Indication of author names that match a search
2449 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2450 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2451 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2452 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2453 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2454 messages in the thread are listed first.
2456 New: Python bindings
2457 --------------------
2459 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2460 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2461 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2462 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2464 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2465 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2466 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2469 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2470 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2471 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2473 Emacs interface improvements
2474 ----------------------------
2476 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2478 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2479 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2480 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2481 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2482 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2483 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2484 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2485 but without any of the disadvantages).
2487 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2488 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2489 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2492 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2493 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2494 instead running something like:
2496 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2498 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2499 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2500 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2503 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2505 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2506 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2507 tweaked by the user.
2509 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2510 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2511 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2514 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2515 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2516 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2519 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2521 This support currently relies on an external program,
2522 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2523 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2524 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2525 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2526 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2529 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2530 notmuch) is available via:
2532 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2534 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2535 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2536 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2538 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2540 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2541 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2542 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2543 making this automatic in a future release.
2545 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2547 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2548 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2549 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2550 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2551 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2552 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2555 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2557 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2558 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2559 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2561 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2563 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2564 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2565 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2567 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2568 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2569 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2570 other representation.
2572 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2573 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2576 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2578 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2579 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2580 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2582 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2583 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2584 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2586 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2588 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2589 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2590 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2591 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2592 to display the search result.
2594 More flexible handling of header visibility
2596 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2597 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2598 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2599 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2600 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2601 with the 'h' keybinding.
2603 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2604 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2605 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2607 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2609 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2611 Customizable formatting of search results
2613 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2614 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2615 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2617 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2619 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2621 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2626 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2628 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2629 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2630 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2631 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2637 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2639 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2640 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2642 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2644 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2645 accept are now all accepted.
2650 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2652 Better display of output from failed tests
2654 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2655 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2657 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2658 ========================
2660 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2661 detailed release notes this time!
2663 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2664 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2666 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2667 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2668 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2669 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2676 Better guessing of From: header
2678 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2679 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2680 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2681 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2682 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2685 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2687 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2688 guaranteed to match all messages.
2690 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2692 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2693 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2694 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2695 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2696 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2699 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2702 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2703 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2704 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2705 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2710 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2712 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2713 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2714 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2715 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2717 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2719 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2721 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2722 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2723 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2725 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2727 Previously, the user might see:
2729 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2733 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2735 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2736 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2737 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2738 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2740 Emacs client features
2741 ---------------------
2743 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2745 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2746 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2747 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2748 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2749 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2751 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2754 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2755 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2756 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2757 search with the '*' binding.
2759 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2761 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2762 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2765 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2767 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2768 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2769 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2771 Build-system features
2772 ---------------------
2774 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2776 Add support to configure for many standard options
2778 We include actual support for:
2780 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2782 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2784 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2785 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2787 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2788 separate "make install-emacs"
2790 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2792 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2793 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2794 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2796 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2799 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2800 ========================
2802 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2804 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2805 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2807 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2808 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2809 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2810 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2811 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2812 tags from messages in a thread.
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