2 Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED)
3 =========================
8 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
10 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
11 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
12 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
13 print for each message.
15 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
16 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
17 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
18 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
23 Built-in help improvements
25 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
26 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
27 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
29 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
30 =========================
32 Command-Line Interface
33 ----------------------
35 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
37 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
38 folder and notmuch index.
40 `notmuch count --batch` option
42 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
43 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
45 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
47 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
48 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
49 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
52 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
54 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
55 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
56 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
57 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
58 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
61 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
63 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
64 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
66 Top level option to specify configuration file
68 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
69 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
71 Bash command-line completion
73 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
74 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
75 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
76 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
77 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
78 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
79 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
80 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
81 bash-completion package.
83 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
88 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
90 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
91 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
92 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
93 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
94 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
95 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
96 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
97 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
99 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
101 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
102 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
103 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
105 Key bindings for next/previous thread
107 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
108 previous thread in the search results.
110 Better handling of errors in search buffers
112 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
113 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
115 Faster search and show
117 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
118 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
119 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
120 threads should show faster.
124 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
125 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
126 in question was now removed from this release.
131 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
132 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
137 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
139 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
140 ===========================
145 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
147 Internal test framework changes
148 -------------------------------
150 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
153 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
154 ===========================
156 Internal test framework changes
157 -------------------------------
159 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
160 build failures in non-interactive environments.
162 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
163 =========================
168 Date range search support
170 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
171 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
172 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
173 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
174 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
177 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
179 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
180 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
181 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
182 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
183 but may be removed in a future release.
185 Command-Line Interface
186 ----------------------
188 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
190 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
191 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
193 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
195 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
196 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
197 officially deprecated.
199 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
201 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
202 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
203 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
205 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
207 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
208 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
211 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
212 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
215 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
217 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
218 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
219 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
221 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
223 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
224 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
225 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
227 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
229 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
230 output separated by null characters rather than newline
231 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
232 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
237 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
239 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
240 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
241 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
242 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
244 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
246 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
247 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
248 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
249 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
250 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
251 the behavior of this, see
252 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
253 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
255 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
256 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
257 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
259 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
261 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
262 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
265 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
267 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
268 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
269 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
270 simply displayed in place of the message.
272 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
274 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
275 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
277 Improved text/calendar content handling
279 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
280 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
281 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
282 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
284 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
286 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
287 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
288 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
289 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
291 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
293 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
294 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
295 for HTML email containing images.
297 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
299 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
301 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
303 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
306 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
308 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
309 the point where it was.
311 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
313 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
314 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
315 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
316 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
317 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
319 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
321 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
322 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
323 thread instead of the message id.
325 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
326 -----------------------------
328 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
329 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
330 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
331 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
332 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
333 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
334 further details and installation.
339 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
341 Internal test framework changes
342 -------------------------------
344 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
346 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
347 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
348 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
349 can result in buggy behavior.
351 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
352 =========================
357 Maildir tag synchronization
359 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
360 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
361 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
362 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
363 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
364 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
367 Command-Line Interface
368 ----------------------
370 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
371 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
372 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
373 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
374 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
380 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
382 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
384 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
385 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
386 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
388 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
390 It is now possible to embed newlines in
391 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
394 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
396 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
397 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
398 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
399 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
400 inside the result or message.
402 Search now uses the JSON format internally
404 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
405 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
407 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
408 user-specified formatting
410 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
411 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
412 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
413 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
414 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
416 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
417 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
419 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
420 ===========================
425 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
426 compilation error for this contrib package.
428 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
429 ===========================
434 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
436 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
437 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
438 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
439 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
441 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
442 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
445 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
446 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
447 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
448 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
451 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
453 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
456 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
457 =========================
459 Command-Line Interface
460 ----------------------
464 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
465 for a reply message and full information about the original message
466 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
467 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
469 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
470 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
471 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
472 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
476 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
477 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
479 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
480 tag in your query, for example:
482 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
484 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
485 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
487 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
488 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
490 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
492 Raw show format changes
494 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
495 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
496 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
497 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
498 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
499 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
500 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
501 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
503 Listing configuration items
505 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
511 Changes to tagging interface
513 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
514 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
515 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
516 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
517 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
518 for more information.
520 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
521 may need to update in custom configurations.
523 Reply improvement using the JSON format
525 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
526 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
527 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
528 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
531 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
532 -----------------------------
534 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
535 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
536 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
537 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
538 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
539 contrib/ from now on.
544 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
545 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
547 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
548 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
550 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
551 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
552 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
554 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
555 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
557 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
558 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
559 returning the new database object or directory object.
566 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
567 compatible with go 1.
569 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
570 =========================
572 Command-Line Interface
573 ----------------------
577 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
578 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
579 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
580 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
582 Mail store folder/file ignore
584 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
585 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
586 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
588 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
589 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
591 Unified help and manual pages
593 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
594 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
597 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
599 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
600 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
608 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
609 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
610 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
611 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
613 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
615 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
616 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
618 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
621 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
622 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
623 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
625 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
627 should be changed to:
629 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
631 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
633 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
634 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
636 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
638 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
639 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
640 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
641 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
642 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
643 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
647 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
648 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
649 of Mailing List Archives.
651 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
653 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
654 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
657 Show view archiving key binding changes
659 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
660 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
661 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
662 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
663 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
666 Support text/calendar MIME type
668 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
671 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
673 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
674 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
675 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
676 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
678 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
680 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
681 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
682 messages blue by default in the search view.
686 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
687 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
694 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
697 Python bindings changes
698 -----------------------
700 Python 3.2 compatibility
702 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
704 Added missing unicode conversions
706 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
707 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
708 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
713 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
715 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
716 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
717 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
718 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
719 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
721 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
722 ===========================
727 Fix error handling in python bindings
729 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
730 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
731 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
732 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
734 Quote MML tags in replies
736 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
737 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
738 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
739 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
740 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
741 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
742 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
743 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
745 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
746 =========================
748 Command-Line Interface
749 ----------------------
753 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
754 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
755 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
756 importing new messages into the database.
758 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
760 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
761 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
762 sometimes. This is now fixed.
767 Automatic tag query optimization
769 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
770 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
771 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
773 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
775 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
776 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
777 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
782 Reduction of memory leaks
784 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
785 and fixed in this release.
792 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
793 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
794 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
797 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
799 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
800 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
801 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
804 Improvements in saved search management
806 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
807 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
808 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
810 Hooks for notmuch-hello
812 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
813 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
814 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
816 New face for crypto parts headers
818 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
819 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
820 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
823 Use space as default thousands separator
825 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
826 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
827 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
829 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
832 New function notmuch-show-advance
834 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
835 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
836 be bound to SPC with:
838 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
840 Various performance improvements
845 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
846 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
849 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
850 ===========================
855 Fix crash in python bindings
857 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
858 for some, but not all users.
860 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
861 ===========================
866 Fix `--help` argument
868 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
869 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
870 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
872 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
873 =========================
875 New build and testing features
876 ------------------------------
878 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
879 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
880 prerequisites is improved.
882 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
884 New command-line features
885 -------------------------
887 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
889 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
890 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
893 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
895 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
896 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
897 favour of using stdout.
899 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
901 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
902 limit the number of results shown.
904 Add `notmuch count --output` option
906 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
907 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
910 New emacs UI features
911 ---------------------
913 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
915 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
916 starting with "tag:".
918 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
920 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
921 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
923 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
925 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
927 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
929 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
930 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
935 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
937 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
939 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
940 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
941 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
942 requires a database rebuild:
944 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
945 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
947 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
949 New collection of add-on tools
950 ------------------------------
952 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
953 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
954 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
957 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
959 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
960 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
961 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
963 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
964 ========================
966 New, general features
967 ---------------------
969 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
971 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
972 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
973 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
974 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
975 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
982 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
983 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
985 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
989 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
990 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
991 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
994 Python bindings changes
995 -----------------------
997 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
999 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1000 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1001 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1002 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1003 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1004 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1006 Ruby bindings changes
1007 ---------------------
1009 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1010 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1011 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1012 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1017 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1019 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1020 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1022 Reply formatting cleanup
1023 ------------------------
1025 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1026 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1028 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1029 ========================
1031 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1033 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1034 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1035 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1036 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1039 Improved Build system portability
1041 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1042 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1043 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1045 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1047 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1049 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1051 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1052 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1053 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1055 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1056 ========================
1058 Vim interface improvements
1059 --------------------------
1061 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1063 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1064 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1065 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1066 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1067 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1069 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1071 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1072 * fix compose temp file name
1074 Python Bindings changes
1075 -----------------------
1077 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1079 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1080 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1082 Build-System improvements
1083 -------------------------
1085 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1087 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1090 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1091 ==========================
1096 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1098 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1099 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1101 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1102 =======================
1104 New, general features
1105 ---------------------
1107 Folder-based searching
1109 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1110 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1111 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1115 For example, one might use things such as:
1121 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1122 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1124 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1125 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1126 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1127 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1129 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1130 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1131 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1134 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1135 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1137 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1139 Support for PGP/MIME
1141 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1142 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1143 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1145 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1147 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1148 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1150 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1151 notmuch will receive these tags.
1153 New command-line features
1154 -------------------------
1156 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1158 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1159 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1161 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1163 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1164 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1165 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1167 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1169 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1170 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1171 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1172 which parts a signature part applies).
1174 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1176 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1177 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1178 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1179 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1180 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1183 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1185 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1186 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1187 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1188 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1189 by translating it internally to the new call.
1191 Performance improvements
1192 ------------------------
1194 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1196 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1197 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1198 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1200 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1201 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1203 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1205 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1206 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1207 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1209 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1210 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1211 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1212 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1214 Faster initial indexing
1216 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1217 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1218 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1220 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1222 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1223 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1224 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1225 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1227 New emacs-interface features
1228 ----------------------------
1230 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1232 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1233 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1234 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1235 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1236 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1237 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1239 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1241 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1242 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1243 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1244 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1246 User-selectable From address
1248 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1249 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1250 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1251 will prompt for the from address to use.
1253 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1254 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1255 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1257 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1258 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1259 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1262 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1264 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1265 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1267 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1269 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1271 ----- Original Message -----
1273 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1274 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1275 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1276 citations work much like conventional citations.
1278 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1280 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1281 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1282 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1283 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1284 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1286 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1287 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1289 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1291 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1292 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1293 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1295 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1297 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1298 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1299 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1300 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1301 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1303 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1305 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1308 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1310 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1312 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1314 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1317 Vim interface improvements
1318 --------------------------
1320 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1322 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1323 * Implementing archive in show view
1324 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1325 * Add delete commands
1328 Bindings improvements
1329 ---------------------
1331 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1333 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1334 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1336 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1338 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1342 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1343 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1344 `list(Messages)` works now
1345 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1347 These allow, for example:
1349 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1351 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1353 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1359 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1361 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1364 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1366 New build-system features
1367 -------------------------
1369 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1371 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1372 the configure script from some other directory:
1379 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1381 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1382 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1383 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1384 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1385 manual invocation of configure.
1387 New test-suite feature
1388 ----------------------
1390 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1392 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1393 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1394 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1395 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1396 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1399 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1401 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1402 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1403 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1404 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1405 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1406 are updated to take advantage of this.
1408 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1410 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1411 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1412 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1413 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1419 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1421 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1422 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1423 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1425 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1427 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1429 to:user@elsewhere.com
1431 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1433 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1435 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1437 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1438 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1439 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1442 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1443 from the Received headers in some cases
1445 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1446 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1448 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1450 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1452 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1454 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1455 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1456 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1458 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1459 -------------------------
1461 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1463 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1464 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1465 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1467 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1469 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1470 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1471 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1474 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1476 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1477 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1478 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1479 fixed to avoid this bug.
1481 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1483 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1484 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1486 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1487 ========================
1489 New, general features
1490 ---------------------
1492 Maildir-flag synchronization
1494 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1495 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1504 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1506 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1507 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1508 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1509 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1511 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1512 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1513 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1514 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1517 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1519 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1520 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1521 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1523 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1524 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1526 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1527 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1529 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1530 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1531 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1533 New library features
1534 --------------------
1536 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1538 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1539 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1540 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1541 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1543 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1544 message with the new function:
1546 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1548 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1549 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1550 over all available filenames for a given message.
1552 New command-line features
1553 -------------------------
1555 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1557 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1558 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1559 access to the mail store itself.
1561 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1562 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1563 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1564 name of a script containing:
1566 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1568 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1569 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1575 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1577 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1579 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1581 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1582 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1583 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1584 now produces nothing).
1586 Emacs interface improvements
1587 ----------------------------
1589 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1591 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1593 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1595 Display current thread subject in a header line
1597 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1599 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1601 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1602 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1603 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1604 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1605 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1606 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1607 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1609 Vim interface improvements
1610 --------------------------
1612 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1614 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1615 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1621 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1623 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1624 ========================
1626 New command-line features
1627 -------------------------
1629 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1631 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1632 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1633 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1635 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1636 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1637 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1638 scripts. For example:
1640 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1641 <operations-on> "$file"
1644 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1646 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1647 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1648 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1649 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1650 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1651 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1653 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1655 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1656 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1657 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1658 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1660 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1662 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1663 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1664 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1665 default rather than Bcc.
1667 New library features
1668 --------------------
1670 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1672 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1673 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1678 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1680 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1681 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1682 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1683 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1684 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1685 notmuch customize interface.
1687 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1689 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1690 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1691 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1692 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1694 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1696 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1697 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1698 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1699 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1701 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1703 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1704 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1705 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1706 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1707 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1708 notmuch customize interface.
1710 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1712 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1713 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1714 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1715 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1716 notmuch customize interface.
1718 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1720 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1721 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1722 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1723 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1726 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1728 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1729 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1730 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1733 New build-system features
1734 -------------------------
1736 Various portability fixes have been applied
1738 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1739 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1740 more portable than ever before.
1742 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1744 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1745 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1746 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1748 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1749 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1750 automatically run ldconfig.
1752 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1753 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1754 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1756 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1757 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1758 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1759 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1761 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1763 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1764 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1765 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1766 used in the resulting Makefile.
1768 New test-suite features
1769 -----------------------
1771 New modularization of test suite
1773 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1774 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1775 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1776 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1777 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1778 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1779 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1780 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1782 New testing of emacs interface
1784 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1785 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1786 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1787 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1788 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1789 database via the FCC setting.
1794 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1796 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1797 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1798 persistent error of the form:
1800 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1802 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1803 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1805 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1807 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1808 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1809 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1811 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1813 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1814 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1815 parsing the notmuch results).
1817 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1819 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1822 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1823 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1824 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1829 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1831 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1832 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1833 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1834 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1835 the emacs interface.
1837 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1839 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1840 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1841 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1843 Python-binding fixes
1844 --------------------
1846 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1848 Debian-specific fixes
1849 ---------------------
1851 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1853 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1854 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1855 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1858 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1859 ==========================
1864 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1866 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1867 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1868 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1869 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1871 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1873 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1874 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1875 want notmuch to crash.
1880 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1882 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1883 directory does not exist
1888 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1890 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1891 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1893 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1894 ========================
1896 New command-line features
1897 -------------------------
1899 User-configurable tags for new messages
1901 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1902 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1903 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1904 to specify this value.
1906 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1908 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1909 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1910 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1912 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1914 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1915 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1917 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1919 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1920 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1921 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1922 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1923 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1926 Indication of author names that match a search
1928 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1929 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1930 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1931 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1932 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1933 messages in the thread are listed first.
1935 New: Python bindings
1936 --------------------
1938 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1939 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1940 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1941 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1943 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1944 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1945 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1948 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1949 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1950 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1952 Emacs interface improvements
1953 ----------------------------
1955 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1957 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1958 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1959 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1960 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1961 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1962 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1963 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1964 but without any of the disadvantages).
1966 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1967 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1968 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1971 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1972 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1973 instead running something like:
1975 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1977 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1978 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1979 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1982 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1984 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1985 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1986 tweaked by the user.
1988 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1989 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1990 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1993 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1994 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1995 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1998 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2000 This support currently relies on an external program,
2001 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2002 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2003 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2004 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2005 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2008 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2009 notmuch) is available via:
2011 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2013 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2014 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2015 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2017 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2019 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2020 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2021 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2022 making this automatic in a future release.
2024 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2026 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2027 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2028 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2029 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2030 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2031 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2034 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2036 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2037 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2038 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2040 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2042 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2043 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2044 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2046 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2047 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2048 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2049 other representation.
2051 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2052 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2055 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2057 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2058 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2059 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2061 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2062 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2063 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2065 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2067 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2068 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2069 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2070 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2071 to display the search result.
2073 More flexible handling of header visibility
2075 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2076 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2077 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2078 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2079 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2080 with the 'h' keybinding.
2082 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2083 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2084 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2086 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2088 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2090 Customizable formatting of search results
2092 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2093 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2094 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2096 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2098 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2100 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2105 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2107 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2108 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2109 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2110 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2116 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2118 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2119 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2121 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2123 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2124 accept are now all accepted.
2129 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2131 Better display of output from failed tests
2133 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2134 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2136 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2137 ========================
2139 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2140 detailed release notes this time!
2142 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2143 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2145 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2146 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2147 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2148 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2155 Better guessing of From: header
2157 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2158 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2159 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2160 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2161 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2164 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2166 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2167 guaranteed to match all messages.
2169 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2171 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2172 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2173 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2174 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2175 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2178 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2181 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2182 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2183 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2184 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2189 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2191 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2192 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2193 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2194 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2196 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2198 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2200 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2201 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2202 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2204 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2206 Previously, the user might see:
2208 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2212 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2214 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2215 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2216 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2217 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2219 Emacs client features
2220 ---------------------
2222 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2224 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2225 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2226 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2227 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2228 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2230 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2233 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2234 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2235 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2236 search with the '*' binding.
2238 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2240 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2241 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2244 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2246 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2247 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2248 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2250 Build-system features
2251 ---------------------
2253 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2255 Add support to configure for many standard options
2257 We include actual support for:
2259 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2261 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2263 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2264 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2266 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2267 separate "make install-emacs"
2269 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2271 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2272 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2273 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2275 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2278 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2279 ========================
2281 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2283 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2284 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2286 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2287 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2288 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2289 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2290 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2291 tags from messages in a thread.
2298 indent-tabs-mode: nil