1 Notmuch 0.20 (UNRELEASED)
6 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
7 docmumentation has been removed.
12 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
13 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
14 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
16 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
17 =========================
22 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
23 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
24 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
25 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
26 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
27 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
28 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
30 Command-Line Interface
31 ----------------------
33 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
35 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
36 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
37 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
38 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
39 script callers should still check the return value.
41 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
43 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
44 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
45 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
46 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
47 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
48 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
49 and returning success even if indexing fails).
51 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
53 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
54 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
55 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
57 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
59 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
60 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
61 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
62 currently unmaintained.
64 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
66 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
67 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
68 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
69 have at least `N` files associated with them.
71 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
73 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
74 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
75 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
76 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
77 count of duplicate addresses.
82 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
84 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
85 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
86 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
89 Improved handling of the unread tag
91 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
92 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
93 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
94 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
95 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
96 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
97 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
99 Expanded default saved search settings
101 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
102 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
104 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
106 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
107 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
108 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
110 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
112 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
113 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
114 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
115 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
116 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
117 the variable for details.
122 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
124 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
125 Representing these independently of the database version number will
126 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
127 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
129 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
131 Previously, library users were required to call
132 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
133 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
134 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
135 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
136 too out of date for that API.
138 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
140 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
141 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
142 atomic section will be aborted.
144 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
145 `notmuch_database_destroy`
147 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
149 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
150 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
151 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
152 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
153 messages into the same thread.
158 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
159 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
160 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
161 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
162 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
163 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
168 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
169 from the config file. Use something like:
173 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
174 "footer": "</body></html>",
183 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
188 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
189 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
190 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
192 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
193 ===========================
198 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
200 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
202 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
204 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
205 structure for signatures changed slightly.
207 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
209 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
212 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
213 ===========================
215 This is a bug fix and portability release.
220 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
222 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
224 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
226 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
228 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
234 Use --quick when starting emacs
236 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
238 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
240 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
242 Command-Line Interface
243 ----------------------
245 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
246 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
251 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
253 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
254 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
256 Fix for phrase indexing
258 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
259 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
260 will affect only newly indexed messages.
265 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
267 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
268 unintentionally removed.
270 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
271 =========================
276 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
277 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
278 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
279 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
280 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
281 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
282 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
283 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
284 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
290 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
292 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
293 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
294 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
295 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
296 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
297 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
298 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
299 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
301 There is a new `path:` search prefix
303 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
304 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
305 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
306 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
309 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
311 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
312 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
313 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
314 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
315 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
316 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
317 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
322 Notmuch database upgrade
324 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
325 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
326 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
327 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
328 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
329 released version of Notmuch before now.
331 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
333 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
334 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
335 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
336 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
338 Message header parsing changes
340 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
341 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
342 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
343 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
344 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
345 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
347 Command-Line Interface
348 ----------------------
350 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
352 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
354 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
356 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
358 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
360 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
361 user does not want it.
363 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
365 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
366 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
367 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
368 support formatted output.
370 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
372 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
373 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
374 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
382 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
383 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
384 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
385 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
386 `~/.emacs` with these.
388 Changed format for saved searches
390 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
391 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
392 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
393 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
396 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
397 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
398 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
399 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
401 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
402 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
403 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
405 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
406 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
407 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
408 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
409 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
411 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
413 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
414 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
415 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
417 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
419 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
420 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
421 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
422 message had been unread).
424 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
425 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
426 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
427 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
429 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
430 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
431 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
433 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
434 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
435 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
436 to tags already present.
440 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
441 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
442 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
443 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
444 these differ from each other.
445 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
447 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
449 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
450 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
451 for these Emacs versions.
453 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
455 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
456 newlines before calling notmuch count.
458 Bug fixes for sender identities
460 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
461 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
462 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
464 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
466 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
467 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
468 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
469 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
471 Reply pushes mark before signature
473 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
474 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
475 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
477 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
479 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
480 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
486 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
487 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
489 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
490 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
491 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
492 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
494 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
495 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
496 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
497 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
498 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
500 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
502 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
503 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
505 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
506 =========================
508 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
509 ---------------------------------------
511 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
512 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
513 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
514 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
515 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
516 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
517 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
521 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
522 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
524 Command-Line Interface
525 ----------------------
527 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
529 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
530 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
531 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
532 print for each message.
534 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
535 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
536 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
537 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
539 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
541 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
542 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
543 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
545 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
547 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
548 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
549 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
550 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
552 `notmuch compact` command
554 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
555 functionality through a more convenient interface than
556 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
557 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
558 move the compacted database into place.
563 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
565 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
566 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
567 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
568 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
569 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
570 and multiple threads.
574 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
576 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
577 search, show and tree mode itself)
579 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
582 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
583 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
585 Customising `notmuch-tree`
587 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
588 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
589 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
590 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
591 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
592 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
593 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
595 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
597 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
598 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
599 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
600 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
601 thread when the search was performed.
603 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
605 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
606 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
607 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
609 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
611 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
612 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
615 Built-in help improvements
617 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
618 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
619 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
621 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
623 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
624 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
625 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
627 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
629 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
630 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
632 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
634 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
635 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
636 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
637 to move some of them to the common keymap.
639 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
641 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
642 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
643 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
644 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
646 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
648 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
649 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
650 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
652 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
654 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
655 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
656 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
658 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
660 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
661 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
662 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
663 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
664 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
666 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
668 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
669 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
670 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
671 the body part of the message.
676 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
677 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
678 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
680 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
681 =========================
683 Command-Line Interface
684 ----------------------
686 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
688 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
689 folder and notmuch index.
691 `notmuch count --batch` option
693 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
694 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
696 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
698 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
699 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
700 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
703 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
705 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
706 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
707 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
708 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
709 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
712 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
714 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
715 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
717 Top level option to specify configuration file
719 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
720 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
722 Bash command-line completion
724 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
725 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
726 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
727 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
728 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
729 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
730 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
731 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
732 bash-completion package.
734 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
739 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
741 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
742 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
743 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
744 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
745 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
746 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
747 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
748 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
750 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
752 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
753 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
754 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
756 Key bindings for next/previous thread
758 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
759 previous thread in the search results.
761 Better handling of errors in search buffers
763 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
764 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
766 Faster search and show
768 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
769 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
770 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
771 threads should show faster.
775 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
776 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
777 in question was now removed from this release.
782 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
783 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
788 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
790 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
791 ===========================
796 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
798 Internal test framework changes
799 -------------------------------
801 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
804 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
805 ===========================
807 Internal test framework changes
808 -------------------------------
810 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
811 build failures in non-interactive environments.
813 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
814 =========================
819 Date range search support
821 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
822 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
823 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
824 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
825 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
828 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
830 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
831 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
832 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
833 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
834 but may be removed in a future release.
836 Command-Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
841 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
842 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
844 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
846 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
847 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
848 officially deprecated.
850 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
852 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
853 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
854 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
856 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
858 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
859 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
862 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
863 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
866 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
868 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
869 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
870 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
872 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
874 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
875 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
876 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
878 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
880 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
881 output separated by null characters rather than newline
882 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
883 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
888 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
890 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
891 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
892 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
893 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
895 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
897 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
898 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
899 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
900 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
901 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
902 the behavior of this, see
903 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
904 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
906 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
907 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
908 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
910 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
912 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
913 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
916 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
918 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
919 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
920 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
921 simply displayed in place of the message.
923 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
925 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
926 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
928 Improved text/calendar content handling
930 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
931 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
932 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
933 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
935 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
937 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
938 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
939 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
940 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
942 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
944 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
945 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
946 for HTML email containing images.
948 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
950 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
952 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
954 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
957 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
959 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
960 the point where it was.
962 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
964 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
965 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
966 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
967 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
968 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
970 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
972 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
973 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
974 thread instead of the message id.
976 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
977 -----------------------------
979 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
980 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
981 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
982 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
983 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
984 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
985 further details and installation.
990 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
992 Internal test framework changes
993 -------------------------------
995 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
997 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
998 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
999 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1000 can result in buggy behavior.
1002 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1003 =========================
1008 Maildir tag synchronization
1010 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1011 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1012 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1013 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1014 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1015 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1018 Command-Line Interface
1019 ----------------------
1021 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1022 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1023 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1024 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1025 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1031 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1033 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1035 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1036 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1037 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1039 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1041 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1042 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1043 span multiple lines.
1045 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1047 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1048 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1049 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1050 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1051 inside the result or message.
1053 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1055 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1056 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1058 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1059 user-specified formatting
1061 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1062 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1063 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1064 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1065 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1067 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1068 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1070 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1071 ===========================
1076 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1077 compilation error for this contrib package.
1079 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1080 ===========================
1085 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1087 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1088 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1089 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1090 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1092 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1093 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1096 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1097 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1098 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1099 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1102 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1104 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1107 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1108 =========================
1110 Command-Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1115 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1116 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1117 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1118 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1120 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1121 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1122 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1123 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1127 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1128 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1130 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1131 tag in your query, for example:
1133 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1135 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1136 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1138 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1139 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1141 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1143 Raw show format changes
1145 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1146 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1147 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1148 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1149 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1150 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1151 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1152 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1154 Listing configuration items
1156 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1162 Changes to tagging interface
1164 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1165 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1166 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1167 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1168 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1169 for more information.
1171 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1172 may need to update in custom configurations.
1174 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1176 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1177 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1178 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1179 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1182 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1183 -----------------------------
1185 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1186 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1187 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1188 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1189 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1190 contrib/ from now on.
1195 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1196 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1198 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1199 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1201 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1202 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1203 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1205 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1206 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1208 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1209 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1210 returning the new database object or directory object.
1217 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1218 compatible with go 1.
1220 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1221 =========================
1223 Command-Line Interface
1224 ----------------------
1228 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1229 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1230 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1231 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1233 Mail store folder/file ignore
1235 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1236 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1237 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1239 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1240 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1242 Unified help and manual pages
1244 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1245 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1248 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1250 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1251 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1259 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1260 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1261 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1262 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1264 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1266 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1267 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1269 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1272 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1273 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1274 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1276 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1278 should be changed to:
1280 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1282 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1284 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1285 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1287 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1289 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1290 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1291 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1292 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1293 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1294 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1298 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1299 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1300 of Mailing List Archives.
1302 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1304 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1305 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1308 Show view archiving key binding changes
1310 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1311 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1312 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1313 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1314 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1317 Support text/calendar MIME type
1319 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1322 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1324 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1325 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1326 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1327 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1329 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1331 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1332 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1333 messages blue by default in the search view.
1337 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1338 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1345 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1348 Python bindings changes
1349 -----------------------
1351 Python 3.2 compatibility
1353 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1355 Added missing unicode conversions
1357 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1358 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1359 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1364 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1366 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1367 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1368 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1369 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1370 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1372 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1373 ===========================
1378 Fix error handling in python bindings
1380 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1381 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1382 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1383 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1385 Quote MML tags in replies
1387 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1388 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1389 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1390 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1391 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1392 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1393 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1394 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1396 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1397 =========================
1399 Command-Line Interface
1400 ----------------------
1404 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1405 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1406 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1407 importing new messages into the database.
1409 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1411 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1412 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1413 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1418 Automatic tag query optimization
1420 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1421 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1422 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1424 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1426 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1427 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1428 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1433 Reduction of memory leaks
1435 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1436 and fixed in this release.
1443 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1444 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1445 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1448 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1450 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1451 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1452 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1455 Improvements in saved search management
1457 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1458 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1459 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1461 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1463 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1464 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1465 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1467 New face for crypto parts headers
1469 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1470 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1471 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1474 Use space as default thousands separator
1476 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1477 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1478 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1480 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1481 buttonized id: links
1483 New function notmuch-show-advance
1485 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1486 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1487 be bound to SPC with:
1489 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1491 Various performance improvements
1496 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1497 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1500 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1501 ===========================
1506 Fix crash in python bindings
1508 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1509 for some, but not all users.
1511 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1512 ===========================
1517 Fix `--help` argument
1519 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1520 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1521 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1523 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1524 =========================
1526 New build and testing features
1527 ------------------------------
1529 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1530 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1531 prerequisites is improved.
1533 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1535 New command-line features
1536 -------------------------
1538 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1540 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1541 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1544 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1546 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1547 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1548 favour of using stdout.
1550 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1552 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1553 limit the number of results shown.
1555 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1557 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1558 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1561 New emacs UI features
1562 ---------------------
1564 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1566 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1567 starting with "tag:".
1569 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1571 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1572 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1574 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1576 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1578 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1580 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1581 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1586 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1588 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1590 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1591 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1592 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1593 requires a database rebuild:
1595 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1596 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1598 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1600 New collection of add-on tools
1601 ------------------------------
1603 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1604 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1605 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1608 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1610 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1611 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1612 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1614 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1615 ========================
1617 New, general features
1618 ---------------------
1620 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1622 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1623 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1624 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1625 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1626 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1633 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1634 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1636 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1640 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1641 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1642 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1645 Python bindings changes
1646 -----------------------
1648 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1650 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1651 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1652 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1653 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1654 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1655 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1657 Ruby bindings changes
1658 ---------------------
1660 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1661 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1662 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1663 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1668 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1670 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1671 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1673 Reply formatting cleanup
1674 ------------------------
1676 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1677 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1679 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1680 ========================
1682 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1684 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1685 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1686 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1687 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1690 Improved Build system portability
1692 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1693 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1694 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1696 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1698 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1700 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1702 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1703 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1704 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1706 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1707 ========================
1709 Vim interface improvements
1710 --------------------------
1712 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1714 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1715 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1716 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1717 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1718 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1720 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1722 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1723 * fix compose temp file name
1725 Python Bindings changes
1726 -----------------------
1728 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1730 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1731 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1733 Build-System improvements
1734 -------------------------
1736 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1738 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1741 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1742 ==========================
1747 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1749 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1750 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1752 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1753 =======================
1755 New, general features
1756 ---------------------
1758 Folder-based searching
1760 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1761 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1762 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1766 For example, one might use things such as:
1772 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1773 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1775 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1776 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1777 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1778 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1780 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1781 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1782 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1785 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1786 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1788 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1790 Support for PGP/MIME
1792 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1793 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1794 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1796 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1798 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1799 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1801 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1802 notmuch will receive these tags.
1804 New command-line features
1805 -------------------------
1807 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1809 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1810 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1812 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1814 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1815 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1816 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1818 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1820 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1821 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1822 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1823 which parts a signature part applies).
1825 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1827 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1828 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1829 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1830 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1831 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1834 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1836 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1837 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1838 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1839 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1840 by translating it internally to the new call.
1842 Performance improvements
1843 ------------------------
1845 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1847 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1848 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1849 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1851 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1852 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1854 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1856 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1857 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1858 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1860 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1861 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1862 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1863 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1865 Faster initial indexing
1867 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1868 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1869 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1871 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1873 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1874 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1875 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1876 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1878 New emacs-interface features
1879 ----------------------------
1881 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1883 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1884 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1885 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1886 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1887 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1888 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1890 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1892 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1893 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1894 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1895 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1897 User-selectable From address
1899 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1900 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1901 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1902 will prompt for the from address to use.
1904 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1905 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1906 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1908 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1909 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1910 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1913 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1915 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1916 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1918 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1920 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1922 ----- Original Message -----
1924 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1925 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1926 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1927 citations work much like conventional citations.
1929 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1931 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1932 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1933 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1934 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1935 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1937 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1938 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1940 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1942 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1943 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1944 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1946 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1948 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1949 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1950 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1951 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1952 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1954 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1956 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1959 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1961 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1963 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1965 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1968 Vim interface improvements
1969 --------------------------
1971 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1973 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1974 * Implementing archive in show view
1975 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1976 * Add delete commands
1979 Bindings improvements
1980 ---------------------
1982 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1984 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1985 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1987 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1989 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1993 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1994 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1995 `list(Messages)` works now
1996 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1998 These allow, for example:
2000 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2002 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2004 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2010 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2012 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2015 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2017 New build-system features
2018 -------------------------
2020 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2022 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2023 the configure script from some other directory:
2030 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2032 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2033 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2034 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2035 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2036 manual invocation of configure.
2038 New test-suite feature
2039 ----------------------
2041 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2043 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2044 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2045 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2046 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2047 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2050 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2052 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2053 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2054 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2055 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2056 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2057 are updated to take advantage of this.
2059 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2061 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2062 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2063 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2064 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2070 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2072 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2073 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2074 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2076 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2078 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2080 to:user@elsewhere.com
2082 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2084 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2086 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2088 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2089 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2090 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2093 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2094 from the Received headers in some cases
2096 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2097 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2099 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2101 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2103 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2105 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2106 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2107 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2109 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2110 -------------------------
2112 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2114 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2115 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2116 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2118 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2120 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2121 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2122 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2125 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2127 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2128 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2129 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2130 fixed to avoid this bug.
2132 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2134 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2135 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2137 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2138 ========================
2140 New, general features
2141 ---------------------
2143 Maildir-flag synchronization
2145 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2146 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2155 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2157 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2158 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2159 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2160 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2162 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2163 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2164 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2165 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2168 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2170 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2171 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2172 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2174 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2175 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2177 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2178 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2180 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2181 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2182 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2184 New library features
2185 --------------------
2187 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2189 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2190 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2191 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2192 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2194 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2195 message with the new function:
2197 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2199 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2200 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2201 over all available filenames for a given message.
2203 New command-line features
2204 -------------------------
2206 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2208 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2209 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2210 access to the mail store itself.
2212 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2213 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2214 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2215 name of a script containing:
2217 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2219 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2220 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2226 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2228 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2230 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2232 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2233 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2234 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2235 now produces nothing).
2237 Emacs interface improvements
2238 ----------------------------
2240 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2242 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2244 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2246 Display current thread subject in a header line
2248 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2250 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2252 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2253 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2254 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2255 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2256 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2257 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2258 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2260 Vim interface improvements
2261 --------------------------
2263 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2265 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2266 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2272 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2274 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2275 ========================
2277 New command-line features
2278 -------------------------
2280 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2282 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2283 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2284 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2286 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2287 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2288 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2289 scripts. For example:
2291 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2292 <operations-on> "$file"
2295 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2297 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2298 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2299 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2300 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2301 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2302 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2304 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2306 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2307 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2308 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2309 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2311 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2313 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2314 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2315 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2316 default rather than Bcc.
2318 New library features
2319 --------------------
2321 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2323 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2324 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2329 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2331 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2332 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2333 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2334 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2335 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2336 notmuch customize interface.
2338 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2340 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2341 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2342 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2343 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2345 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2347 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2348 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2349 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2350 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2352 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2354 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2355 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2356 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2357 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2358 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2359 notmuch customize interface.
2361 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2363 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2364 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2365 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2366 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2367 notmuch customize interface.
2369 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2371 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2372 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2373 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2374 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2377 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2379 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2380 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2381 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2384 New build-system features
2385 -------------------------
2387 Various portability fixes have been applied
2389 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2390 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2391 more portable than ever before.
2393 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2395 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2396 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2397 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2399 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2400 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2401 automatically run ldconfig.
2403 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2404 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2405 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2407 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2408 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2409 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2410 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2412 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2414 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2415 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2416 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2417 used in the resulting Makefile.
2419 New test-suite features
2420 -----------------------
2422 New modularization of test suite
2424 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2425 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2426 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2427 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2428 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2429 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2430 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2431 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2433 New testing of emacs interface
2435 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2436 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2437 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2438 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2439 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2440 database via the FCC setting.
2445 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2447 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2448 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2449 persistent error of the form:
2451 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2453 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2454 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2456 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2458 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2459 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2460 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2462 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2464 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2465 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2466 parsing the notmuch results).
2468 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2470 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2473 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2474 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2475 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2480 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2482 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2483 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2484 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2485 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2486 the emacs interface.
2488 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2490 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2491 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2492 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2494 Python-binding fixes
2495 --------------------
2497 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2499 Debian-specific fixes
2500 ---------------------
2502 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2504 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2505 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2506 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2509 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2510 ==========================
2515 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2517 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2518 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2519 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2520 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2522 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2524 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2525 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2526 want notmuch to crash.
2531 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2533 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2534 directory does not exist
2539 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2541 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2542 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2544 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2545 ========================
2547 New command-line features
2548 -------------------------
2550 User-configurable tags for new messages
2552 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2553 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2554 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2555 to specify this value.
2557 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2559 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2560 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2561 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2563 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2565 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2566 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2568 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2570 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2571 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2572 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2573 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2574 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2577 Indication of author names that match a search
2579 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2580 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2581 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2582 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2583 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2584 messages in the thread are listed first.
2586 New: Python bindings
2587 --------------------
2589 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2590 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2591 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2592 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2594 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2595 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2596 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2599 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2600 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2601 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2603 Emacs interface improvements
2604 ----------------------------
2606 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2608 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2609 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2610 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2611 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2612 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2613 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2614 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2615 but without any of the disadvantages).
2617 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2618 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2619 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2622 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2623 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2624 instead running something like:
2626 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2628 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2629 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2630 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2633 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2635 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2636 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2637 tweaked by the user.
2639 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2640 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2641 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2644 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2645 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2646 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2649 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2651 This support currently relies on an external program,
2652 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2653 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2654 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2655 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2656 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2659 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2660 notmuch) is available via:
2662 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2664 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2665 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2666 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2668 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2670 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2671 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2672 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2673 making this automatic in a future release.
2675 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2677 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2678 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2679 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2680 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2681 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2682 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2685 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2687 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2688 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2689 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2691 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2693 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2694 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2695 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2697 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2698 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2699 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2700 other representation.
2702 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2703 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2706 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2708 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2709 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2710 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2712 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2713 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2714 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2716 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2718 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2719 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2720 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2721 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2722 to display the search result.
2724 More flexible handling of header visibility
2726 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2727 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2728 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2729 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2730 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2731 with the 'h' keybinding.
2733 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2734 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2735 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2737 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2739 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2741 Customizable formatting of search results
2743 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2744 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2745 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2747 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2749 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2751 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2756 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2758 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2759 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2760 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2761 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2767 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2769 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2770 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2772 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2774 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2775 accept are now all accepted.
2780 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2782 Better display of output from failed tests
2784 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2785 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2787 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2788 ========================
2790 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2791 detailed release notes this time!
2793 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2794 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2796 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2797 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2798 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2799 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2806 Better guessing of From: header
2808 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2809 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2810 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2811 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2812 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2815 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2817 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2818 guaranteed to match all messages.
2820 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2822 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2823 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2824 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2825 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2826 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2829 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2832 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2833 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2834 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2835 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2840 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2842 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2843 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2844 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2845 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2847 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2849 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2851 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2852 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2853 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2855 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2857 Previously, the user might see:
2859 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2863 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2865 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2866 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2867 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2868 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2870 Emacs client features
2871 ---------------------
2873 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2875 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2876 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2877 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2878 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2879 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2881 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2884 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2885 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2886 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2887 search with the '*' binding.
2889 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2891 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2892 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2895 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2897 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2898 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2899 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2901 Build-system features
2902 ---------------------
2904 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2906 Add support to configure for many standard options
2908 We include actual support for:
2910 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2912 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2914 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2915 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2917 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2918 separate "make install-emacs"
2920 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2922 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2923 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2924 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2926 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2929 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2930 ========================
2932 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2934 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2935 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2937 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2938 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2939 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2940 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2941 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2942 tags from messages in a thread.
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