1 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2 ===========================
7 Portability and bug fixes for test suite to improve compatibility with Emacs 24.4, gdb 7.8, and the ppc64el architecture.
9 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
10 ===========================
12 This is a bug fix and portability release.
17 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
19 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
21 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
23 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
25 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
31 Use --quick when starting emacs
33 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
35 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
37 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
39 Command-Line Interface
40 ----------------------
42 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
43 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
48 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
50 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
51 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
53 Fix for phrase indexing
55 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
56 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
57 will affect only newly indexed messages.
62 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
64 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
65 unintentionally removed.
67 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
68 =========================
73 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
74 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
75 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
76 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
77 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
78 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
79 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
80 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
81 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
87 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
89 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
90 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
91 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
92 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
93 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
94 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
95 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
96 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
98 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
100 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
101 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
102 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
103 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
106 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
108 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
109 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
110 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
111 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
112 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
113 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
114 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
119 Notmuch database upgrade
121 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
122 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
123 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
124 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
125 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
126 released version of Notmuch before now.
128 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
130 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
131 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
132 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
133 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
135 Message header parsing changes
137 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
138 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
139 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
140 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
141 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
142 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
144 Command-Line Interface
145 ----------------------
147 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
149 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
151 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
153 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
155 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
157 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
158 user does not want it.
160 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
162 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
163 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
164 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
165 support formatted output.
167 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
169 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
170 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
171 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
179 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
180 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
181 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
182 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
183 `~/.emacs` with these.
185 Changed format for saved searches
187 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
188 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
189 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
190 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
193 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
194 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
195 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
196 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
198 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
199 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
200 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
202 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
203 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
204 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
205 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
206 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
208 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
210 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
211 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
212 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
214 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
216 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
217 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
218 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
219 message had been unread).
221 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
222 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
223 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
224 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
226 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
227 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
228 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
230 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
231 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
232 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
233 to tags already present.
237 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
238 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
239 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
240 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
241 these differ from each other.
242 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
244 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
246 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
247 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
248 for these Emacs versions.
250 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
252 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
253 newlines before calling notmuch count.
255 Bug fixes for sender identities
257 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
258 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
259 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
261 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
263 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
264 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
265 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
266 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
268 Reply pushes mark before signature
270 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
271 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
272 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
274 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
276 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
277 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
283 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
284 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
286 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
287 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
288 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
289 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
291 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
292 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
293 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
294 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
295 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
297 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
299 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
300 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
302 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
303 =========================
305 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
306 ---------------------------------------
308 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
309 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
310 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
311 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
312 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
313 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
314 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
318 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
319 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
321 Command-Line Interface
322 ----------------------
324 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
326 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
327 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
328 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
329 print for each message.
331 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
332 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
333 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
334 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
336 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
338 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
339 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
340 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
342 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
344 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
345 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
346 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
347 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
349 `notmuch compact` command
351 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
352 functionality through a more convenient interface than
353 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
354 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
355 move the compacted database into place.
360 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
362 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
363 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
364 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
365 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
366 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
367 and multiple threads.
371 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
373 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
374 search, show and tree mode itself)
376 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
379 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
380 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
382 Customising `notmuch-tree`
384 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
385 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
386 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
387 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
388 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
389 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
390 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
392 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
394 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
395 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
396 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
397 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
398 thread when the search was performed.
400 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
402 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
403 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
404 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
406 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
408 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
409 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
412 Built-in help improvements
414 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
415 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
416 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
418 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
420 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
421 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
422 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
424 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
426 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
427 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
429 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
431 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
432 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
433 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
434 to move some of them to the common keymap.
436 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
438 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
439 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
440 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
441 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
443 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
445 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
446 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
447 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
449 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
451 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
452 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
453 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
455 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
457 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
458 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
459 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
460 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
461 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
463 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
465 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
466 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
467 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
468 the body part of the message.
473 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
474 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
475 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
477 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
478 =========================
480 Command-Line Interface
481 ----------------------
483 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
485 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
486 folder and notmuch index.
488 `notmuch count --batch` option
490 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
491 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
493 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
495 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
496 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
497 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
500 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
502 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
503 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
504 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
505 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
506 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
509 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
511 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
512 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
514 Top level option to specify configuration file
516 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
517 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
519 Bash command-line completion
521 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
522 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
523 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
524 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
525 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
526 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
527 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
528 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
529 bash-completion package.
531 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
536 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
538 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
539 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
540 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
541 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
542 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
543 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
544 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
545 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
547 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
549 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
550 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
551 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
553 Key bindings for next/previous thread
555 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
556 previous thread in the search results.
558 Better handling of errors in search buffers
560 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
561 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
563 Faster search and show
565 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
566 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
567 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
568 threads should show faster.
572 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
573 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
574 in question was now removed from this release.
579 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
580 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
585 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
587 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
588 ===========================
593 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
595 Internal test framework changes
596 -------------------------------
598 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
601 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
602 ===========================
604 Internal test framework changes
605 -------------------------------
607 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
608 build failures in non-interactive environments.
610 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
611 =========================
616 Date range search support
618 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
619 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
620 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
621 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
622 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
625 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
627 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
628 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
629 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
630 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
631 but may be removed in a future release.
633 Command-Line Interface
634 ----------------------
636 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
638 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
639 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
641 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
643 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
644 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
645 officially deprecated.
647 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
649 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
650 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
651 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
653 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
655 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
656 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
659 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
660 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
663 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
665 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
666 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
667 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
669 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
671 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
672 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
673 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
675 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
677 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
678 output separated by null characters rather than newline
679 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
680 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
685 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
687 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
688 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
689 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
690 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
692 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
694 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
695 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
696 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
697 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
698 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
699 the behavior of this, see
700 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
701 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
703 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
704 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
705 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
707 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
709 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
710 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
713 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
715 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
716 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
717 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
718 simply displayed in place of the message.
720 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
722 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
723 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
725 Improved text/calendar content handling
727 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
728 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
729 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
730 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
732 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
734 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
735 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
736 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
737 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
739 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
741 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
742 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
743 for HTML email containing images.
745 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
747 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
749 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
751 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
754 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
756 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
757 the point where it was.
759 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
761 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
762 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
763 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
764 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
765 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
767 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
769 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
770 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
771 thread instead of the message id.
773 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
774 -----------------------------
776 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
777 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
778 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
779 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
780 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
781 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
782 further details and installation.
787 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
789 Internal test framework changes
790 -------------------------------
792 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
794 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
795 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
796 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
797 can result in buggy behavior.
799 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
800 =========================
805 Maildir tag synchronization
807 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
808 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
809 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
810 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
811 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
812 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
815 Command-Line Interface
816 ----------------------
818 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
819 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
820 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
821 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
822 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
828 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
830 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
832 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
833 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
834 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
836 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
838 It is now possible to embed newlines in
839 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
842 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
844 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
845 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
846 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
847 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
848 inside the result or message.
850 Search now uses the JSON format internally
852 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
853 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
855 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
856 user-specified formatting
858 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
859 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
860 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
861 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
862 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
864 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
865 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
867 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
868 ===========================
873 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
874 compilation error for this contrib package.
876 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
877 ===========================
882 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
884 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
885 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
886 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
887 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
889 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
890 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
893 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
894 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
895 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
896 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
899 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
901 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
904 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
905 =========================
907 Command-Line Interface
908 ----------------------
912 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
913 for a reply message and full information about the original message
914 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
915 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
917 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
918 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
919 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
920 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
924 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
925 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
927 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
928 tag in your query, for example:
930 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
932 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
933 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
935 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
936 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
938 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
940 Raw show format changes
942 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
943 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
944 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
945 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
946 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
947 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
948 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
949 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
951 Listing configuration items
953 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
959 Changes to tagging interface
961 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
962 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
963 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
964 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
965 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
966 for more information.
968 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
969 may need to update in custom configurations.
971 Reply improvement using the JSON format
973 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
974 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
975 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
976 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
979 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
980 -----------------------------
982 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
983 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
984 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
985 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
986 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
987 contrib/ from now on.
992 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
993 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
995 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
996 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
998 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
999 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1000 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1002 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1003 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1005 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1006 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1007 returning the new database object or directory object.
1014 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1015 compatible with go 1.
1017 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1018 =========================
1020 Command-Line Interface
1021 ----------------------
1025 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1026 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1027 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1028 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1030 Mail store folder/file ignore
1032 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1033 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1034 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1036 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1037 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1039 Unified help and manual pages
1041 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1042 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1045 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1047 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1048 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1056 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1057 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1058 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1059 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1061 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1063 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1064 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1066 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1069 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1070 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1071 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1073 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1075 should be changed to:
1077 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1079 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1081 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1082 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1084 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1086 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1087 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1088 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1089 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1090 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1091 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1095 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1096 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1097 of Mailing List Archives.
1099 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1101 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1102 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1105 Show view archiving key binding changes
1107 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1108 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1109 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1110 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1111 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1114 Support text/calendar MIME type
1116 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1119 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1121 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1122 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1123 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1124 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1126 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1128 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1129 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1130 messages blue by default in the search view.
1134 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1135 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1142 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1145 Python bindings changes
1146 -----------------------
1148 Python 3.2 compatibility
1150 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1152 Added missing unicode conversions
1154 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1155 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1156 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1161 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1163 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1164 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1165 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1166 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1167 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1169 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1170 ===========================
1175 Fix error handling in python bindings
1177 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1178 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1179 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1180 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1182 Quote MML tags in replies
1184 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1185 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1186 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1187 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1188 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1189 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1190 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1191 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1193 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1194 =========================
1196 Command-Line Interface
1197 ----------------------
1201 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1202 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1203 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1204 importing new messages into the database.
1206 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1208 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1209 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1210 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1215 Automatic tag query optimization
1217 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1218 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1219 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1221 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1223 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1224 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1225 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1230 Reduction of memory leaks
1232 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1233 and fixed in this release.
1240 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1241 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1242 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1245 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1247 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1248 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1249 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1252 Improvements in saved search management
1254 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1255 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1256 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1258 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1260 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1261 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1262 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1264 New face for crypto parts headers
1266 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1267 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1268 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1271 Use space as default thousands separator
1273 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1274 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1275 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1277 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1278 buttonized id: links
1280 New function notmuch-show-advance
1282 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1283 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1284 be bound to SPC with:
1286 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1288 Various performance improvements
1293 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1294 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1297 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1298 ===========================
1303 Fix crash in python bindings
1305 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1306 for some, but not all users.
1308 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1309 ===========================
1314 Fix `--help` argument
1316 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1317 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1318 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1320 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1321 =========================
1323 New build and testing features
1324 ------------------------------
1326 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1327 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1328 prerequisites is improved.
1330 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1332 New command-line features
1333 -------------------------
1335 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1337 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1338 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1341 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1343 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1344 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1345 favour of using stdout.
1347 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1349 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1350 limit the number of results shown.
1352 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1354 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1355 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1358 New emacs UI features
1359 ---------------------
1361 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1363 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1364 starting with "tag:".
1366 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1368 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1369 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1371 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1373 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1375 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1377 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1378 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1383 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1385 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1387 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1388 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1389 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1390 requires a database rebuild:
1392 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1393 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1395 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1397 New collection of add-on tools
1398 ------------------------------
1400 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1401 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1402 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1405 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1407 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1408 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1409 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1411 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1412 ========================
1414 New, general features
1415 ---------------------
1417 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1419 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1420 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1421 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1422 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1423 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1430 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1431 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1433 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1437 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1438 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1439 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1442 Python bindings changes
1443 -----------------------
1445 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1447 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1448 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1449 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1450 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1451 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1452 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1454 Ruby bindings changes
1455 ---------------------
1457 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1458 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1459 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1460 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1465 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1467 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1468 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1470 Reply formatting cleanup
1471 ------------------------
1473 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1474 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1476 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1477 ========================
1479 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1481 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1482 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1483 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1484 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1487 Improved Build system portability
1489 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1490 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1491 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1493 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1495 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1497 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1499 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1500 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1501 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1503 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1504 ========================
1506 Vim interface improvements
1507 --------------------------
1509 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1511 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1512 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1513 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1514 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1515 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1517 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1519 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1520 * fix compose temp file name
1522 Python Bindings changes
1523 -----------------------
1525 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1527 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1528 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1530 Build-System improvements
1531 -------------------------
1533 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1535 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1538 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1539 ==========================
1544 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1546 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1547 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1549 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1550 =======================
1552 New, general features
1553 ---------------------
1555 Folder-based searching
1557 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1558 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1559 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1563 For example, one might use things such as:
1569 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1570 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1572 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1573 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1574 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1575 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1577 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1578 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1579 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1582 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1583 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1585 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1587 Support for PGP/MIME
1589 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1590 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1591 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1593 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1595 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1596 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1598 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1599 notmuch will receive these tags.
1601 New command-line features
1602 -------------------------
1604 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1606 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1607 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1609 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1611 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1612 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1613 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1615 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1617 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1618 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1619 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1620 which parts a signature part applies).
1622 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1624 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1625 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1626 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1627 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1628 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1631 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1633 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1634 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1635 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1636 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1637 by translating it internally to the new call.
1639 Performance improvements
1640 ------------------------
1642 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1644 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1645 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1646 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1648 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1649 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1651 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1653 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1654 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1655 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1657 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1658 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1659 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1660 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1662 Faster initial indexing
1664 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1665 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1666 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1668 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1670 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1671 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1672 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1673 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1675 New emacs-interface features
1676 ----------------------------
1678 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1680 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1681 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1682 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1683 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1684 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1685 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1687 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1689 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1690 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1691 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1692 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1694 User-selectable From address
1696 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1697 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1698 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1699 will prompt for the from address to use.
1701 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1702 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1703 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1705 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1706 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1707 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1710 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1712 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1713 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1715 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1717 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1719 ----- Original Message -----
1721 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1722 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1723 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1724 citations work much like conventional citations.
1726 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1728 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1729 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1730 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1731 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1732 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1734 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1735 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1737 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1739 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1740 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1741 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1743 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1745 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1746 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1747 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1748 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1749 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1751 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1753 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1756 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1758 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1760 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1762 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1765 Vim interface improvements
1766 --------------------------
1768 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1770 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1771 * Implementing archive in show view
1772 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1773 * Add delete commands
1776 Bindings improvements
1777 ---------------------
1779 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1781 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1782 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1784 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1786 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1790 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1791 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1792 `list(Messages)` works now
1793 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1795 These allow, for example:
1797 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1799 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1801 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1807 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1809 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1812 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1814 New build-system features
1815 -------------------------
1817 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1819 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1820 the configure script from some other directory:
1827 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1829 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1830 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1831 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1832 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1833 manual invocation of configure.
1835 New test-suite feature
1836 ----------------------
1838 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1840 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1841 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1842 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1843 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1844 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1847 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1849 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1850 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1851 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1852 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1853 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1854 are updated to take advantage of this.
1856 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1858 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1859 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1860 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1861 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1867 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1869 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1870 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1871 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1873 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1875 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1877 to:user@elsewhere.com
1879 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1881 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1883 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1885 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1886 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1887 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1890 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1891 from the Received headers in some cases
1893 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1894 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1896 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1898 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1900 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1902 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1903 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1904 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1906 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1907 -------------------------
1909 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1911 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1912 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1913 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1915 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1917 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1918 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1919 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1922 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1924 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1925 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1926 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1927 fixed to avoid this bug.
1929 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1931 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1932 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1934 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1935 ========================
1937 New, general features
1938 ---------------------
1940 Maildir-flag synchronization
1942 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1943 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1952 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1954 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1955 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1956 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1957 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1959 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1960 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1961 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1962 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1965 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1967 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1968 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1969 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1971 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1972 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1974 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1975 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1977 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1978 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1979 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1981 New library features
1982 --------------------
1984 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1986 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1987 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1988 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1989 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1991 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1992 message with the new function:
1994 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1996 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1997 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1998 over all available filenames for a given message.
2000 New command-line features
2001 -------------------------
2003 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2005 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2006 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2007 access to the mail store itself.
2009 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2010 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2011 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2012 name of a script containing:
2014 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2016 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2017 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2023 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2025 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2027 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2029 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2030 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2031 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2032 now produces nothing).
2034 Emacs interface improvements
2035 ----------------------------
2037 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2039 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2041 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2043 Display current thread subject in a header line
2045 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2047 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2049 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2050 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2051 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2052 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2053 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2054 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2055 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2057 Vim interface improvements
2058 --------------------------
2060 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2062 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2063 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2069 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2071 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2072 ========================
2074 New command-line features
2075 -------------------------
2077 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2079 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2080 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2081 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2083 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2084 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2085 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2086 scripts. For example:
2088 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2089 <operations-on> "$file"
2092 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2094 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2095 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2096 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2097 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2098 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2099 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2101 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2103 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2104 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2105 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2106 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2108 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2110 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2111 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2112 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2113 default rather than Bcc.
2115 New library features
2116 --------------------
2118 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2120 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2121 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2126 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2128 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2129 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2130 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2131 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2132 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2133 notmuch customize interface.
2135 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2137 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2138 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2139 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2140 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2142 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2144 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2145 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2146 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2147 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2149 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2151 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2152 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2153 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2154 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2155 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2156 notmuch customize interface.
2158 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2160 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2161 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2162 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2163 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2164 notmuch customize interface.
2166 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2168 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2169 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2170 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2171 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2174 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2176 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2177 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2178 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2181 New build-system features
2182 -------------------------
2184 Various portability fixes have been applied
2186 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2187 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2188 more portable than ever before.
2190 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2192 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2193 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2194 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2196 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2197 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2198 automatically run ldconfig.
2200 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2201 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2202 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2204 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2205 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2206 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2207 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2209 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2211 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2212 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2213 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2214 used in the resulting Makefile.
2216 New test-suite features
2217 -----------------------
2219 New modularization of test suite
2221 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2222 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2223 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2224 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2225 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2226 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2227 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2228 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2230 New testing of emacs interface
2232 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2233 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2234 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2235 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2236 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2237 database via the FCC setting.
2242 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2244 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2245 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2246 persistent error of the form:
2248 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2250 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2251 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2253 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2255 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2256 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2257 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2259 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2261 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2262 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2263 parsing the notmuch results).
2265 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2267 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2270 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2271 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2272 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2277 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2279 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2280 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2281 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2282 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2283 the emacs interface.
2285 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2287 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2288 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2289 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2291 Python-binding fixes
2292 --------------------
2294 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2296 Debian-specific fixes
2297 ---------------------
2299 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2301 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2302 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2303 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2306 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2307 ==========================
2312 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2314 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2315 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2316 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2317 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2319 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2321 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2322 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2323 want notmuch to crash.
2328 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2330 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2331 directory does not exist
2336 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2338 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2339 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2341 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2342 ========================
2344 New command-line features
2345 -------------------------
2347 User-configurable tags for new messages
2349 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2350 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2351 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2352 to specify this value.
2354 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2356 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2357 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2358 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2360 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2362 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2363 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2365 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2367 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2368 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2369 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2370 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2371 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2374 Indication of author names that match a search
2376 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2377 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2378 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2379 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2380 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2381 messages in the thread are listed first.
2383 New: Python bindings
2384 --------------------
2386 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2387 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2388 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2389 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2391 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2392 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2393 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2396 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2397 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2398 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2400 Emacs interface improvements
2401 ----------------------------
2403 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2405 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2406 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2407 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2408 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2409 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2410 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2411 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2412 but without any of the disadvantages).
2414 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2415 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2416 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2419 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2420 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2421 instead running something like:
2423 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2425 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2426 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2427 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2430 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2432 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2433 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2434 tweaked by the user.
2436 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2437 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2438 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2441 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2442 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2443 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2446 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2448 This support currently relies on an external program,
2449 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2450 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2451 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2452 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2453 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2456 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2457 notmuch) is available via:
2459 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2461 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2462 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2463 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2465 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2467 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2468 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2469 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2470 making this automatic in a future release.
2472 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2474 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2475 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2476 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2477 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2478 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2479 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2482 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2484 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2485 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2486 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2488 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2490 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2491 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2492 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2494 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2495 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2496 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2497 other representation.
2499 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2500 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2503 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2505 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2506 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2507 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2509 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2510 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2511 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2513 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2515 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2516 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2517 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2518 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2519 to display the search result.
2521 More flexible handling of header visibility
2523 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2524 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2525 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2526 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2527 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2528 with the 'h' keybinding.
2530 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2531 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2532 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2534 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2536 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2538 Customizable formatting of search results
2540 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2541 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2542 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2544 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2546 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2548 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2553 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2555 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2556 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2557 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2558 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2564 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2566 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2567 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2569 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2571 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2572 accept are now all accepted.
2577 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2579 Better display of output from failed tests
2581 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2582 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2584 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2585 ========================
2587 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2588 detailed release notes this time!
2590 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2591 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2593 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2594 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2595 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2596 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2603 Better guessing of From: header
2605 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2606 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2607 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2608 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2609 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2612 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2614 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2615 guaranteed to match all messages.
2617 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2619 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2620 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2621 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2622 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2623 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2626 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2629 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2630 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2631 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2632 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2637 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2639 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2640 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2641 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2642 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2644 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2646 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2648 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2649 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2650 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2652 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2654 Previously, the user might see:
2656 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2660 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2662 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2663 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2664 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2665 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2667 Emacs client features
2668 ---------------------
2670 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2672 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2673 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2674 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2675 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2676 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2678 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2681 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2682 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2683 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2684 search with the '*' binding.
2686 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2688 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2689 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2692 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2694 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2695 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2696 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2698 Build-system features
2699 ---------------------
2701 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2703 Add support to configure for many standard options
2705 We include actual support for:
2707 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2709 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2711 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2712 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2714 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2715 separate "make install-emacs"
2717 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2719 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2720 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2721 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2723 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2726 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2727 ========================
2729 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2731 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2732 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2734 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2735 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2736 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2737 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2738 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2739 tags from messages in a thread.
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