1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
22 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
23 notmuch_database_destroy
28 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
29 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
30 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
31 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
32 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
33 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
38 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
39 from the config file. Use something like:
43 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
44 "footer": "</body></html>",
53 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
58 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
59 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
60 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
62 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
63 ===========================
65 This is a bug fix and portability release.
70 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
72 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
74 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
76 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
78 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
84 Use --quick when starting emacs
86 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
88 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
90 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
92 Command-Line Interface
93 ----------------------
95 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
96 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
101 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
103 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
104 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
106 Fix for phrase indexing
108 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
109 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
110 will affect only newly indexed messages.
115 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
117 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
118 unintentionally removed.
120 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
121 =========================
126 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
127 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
128 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
129 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
130 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
131 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
132 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
133 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
134 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
140 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
142 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
143 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
144 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
145 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
146 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
147 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
148 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
149 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
151 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
153 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
154 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
155 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
156 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
159 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
161 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
162 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
163 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
164 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
165 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
166 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
167 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
172 Notmuch database upgrade
174 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
175 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
176 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
177 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
178 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
179 released version of Notmuch before now.
181 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
183 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
184 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
185 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
186 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
188 Message header parsing changes
190 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
191 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
192 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
193 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
194 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
195 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
197 Command-Line Interface
198 ----------------------
200 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
202 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
204 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
206 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
208 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
210 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
211 user does not want it.
213 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
215 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
216 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
217 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
218 support formatted output.
220 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
222 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
223 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
224 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
232 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
233 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
234 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
235 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
236 `~/.emacs` with these.
238 Changed format for saved searches
240 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
241 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
242 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
243 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
246 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
247 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
248 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
249 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
251 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
252 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
253 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
255 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
256 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
257 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
258 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
259 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
261 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
263 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
264 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
265 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
267 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
269 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
270 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
271 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
272 message had been unread).
274 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
275 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
276 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
277 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
279 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
280 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
281 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
283 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
284 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
285 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
286 to tags already present.
290 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
291 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
292 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
293 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
294 these differ from each other.
295 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
297 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
299 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
300 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
301 for these Emacs versions.
303 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
305 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
306 newlines before calling notmuch count.
308 Bug fixes for sender identities
310 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
311 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
312 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
314 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
316 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
317 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
318 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
319 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
321 Reply pushes mark before signature
323 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
324 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
325 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
327 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
329 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
330 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
336 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
337 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
339 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
340 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
341 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
342 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
344 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
345 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
346 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
347 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
348 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
350 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
352 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
353 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
355 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
356 =========================
358 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
359 ---------------------------------------
361 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
362 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
363 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
364 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
365 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
366 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
367 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
371 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
372 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
374 Command-Line Interface
375 ----------------------
377 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
379 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
380 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
381 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
382 print for each message.
384 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
385 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
386 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
387 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
389 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
391 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
392 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
393 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
395 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
397 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
398 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
399 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
400 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
402 `notmuch compact` command
404 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
405 functionality through a more convenient interface than
406 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
407 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
408 move the compacted database into place.
413 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
415 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
416 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
417 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
418 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
419 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
420 and multiple threads.
424 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
426 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
427 search, show and tree mode itself)
429 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
432 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
433 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
435 Customising `notmuch-tree`
437 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
438 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
439 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
440 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
441 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
442 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
443 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
445 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
447 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
448 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
449 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
450 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
451 thread when the search was performed.
453 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
455 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
456 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
457 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
459 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
461 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
462 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
465 Built-in help improvements
467 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
468 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
469 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
471 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
473 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
474 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
475 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
477 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
479 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
480 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
482 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
484 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
485 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
486 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
487 to move some of them to the common keymap.
489 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
491 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
492 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
493 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
494 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
496 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
498 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
499 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
500 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
502 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
504 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
505 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
506 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
508 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
510 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
511 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
512 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
513 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
514 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
516 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
518 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
519 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
520 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
521 the body part of the message.
526 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
527 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
528 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
530 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
531 =========================
533 Command-Line Interface
534 ----------------------
536 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
538 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
539 folder and notmuch index.
541 `notmuch count --batch` option
543 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
544 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
546 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
548 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
549 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
550 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
553 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
555 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
556 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
557 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
558 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
559 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
562 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
564 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
565 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
567 Top level option to specify configuration file
569 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
570 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
572 Bash command-line completion
574 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
575 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
576 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
577 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
578 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
579 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
580 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
581 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
582 bash-completion package.
584 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
589 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
591 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
592 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
593 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
594 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
595 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
596 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
597 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
598 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
600 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
602 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
603 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
604 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
606 Key bindings for next/previous thread
608 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
609 previous thread in the search results.
611 Better handling of errors in search buffers
613 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
614 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
616 Faster search and show
618 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
619 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
620 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
621 threads should show faster.
625 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
626 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
627 in question was now removed from this release.
632 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
633 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
638 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
640 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
641 ===========================
646 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
648 Internal test framework changes
649 -------------------------------
651 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
654 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
655 ===========================
657 Internal test framework changes
658 -------------------------------
660 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
661 build failures in non-interactive environments.
663 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
664 =========================
669 Date range search support
671 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
672 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
673 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
674 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
675 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
678 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
680 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
681 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
682 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
683 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
684 but may be removed in a future release.
686 Command-Line Interface
687 ----------------------
689 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
691 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
692 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
694 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
696 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
697 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
698 officially deprecated.
700 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
702 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
703 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
704 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
706 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
708 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
709 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
712 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
713 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
716 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
718 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
719 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
720 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
722 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
724 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
725 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
726 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
728 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
730 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
731 output separated by null characters rather than newline
732 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
733 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
738 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
740 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
741 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
742 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
743 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
745 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
747 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
748 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
749 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
750 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
751 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
752 the behavior of this, see
753 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
754 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
756 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
757 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
758 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
760 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
762 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
763 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
766 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
768 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
769 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
770 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
771 simply displayed in place of the message.
773 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
775 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
776 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
778 Improved text/calendar content handling
780 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
781 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
782 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
783 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
785 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
787 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
788 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
789 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
790 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
792 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
794 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
795 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
796 for HTML email containing images.
798 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
800 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
802 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
804 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
807 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
809 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
810 the point where it was.
812 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
814 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
815 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
816 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
817 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
818 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
820 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
822 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
823 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
824 thread instead of the message id.
826 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
827 -----------------------------
829 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
830 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
831 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
832 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
833 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
834 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
835 further details and installation.
840 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
842 Internal test framework changes
843 -------------------------------
845 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
847 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
848 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
849 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
850 can result in buggy behavior.
852 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
853 =========================
858 Maildir tag synchronization
860 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
861 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
862 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
863 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
864 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
865 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
868 Command-Line Interface
869 ----------------------
871 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
872 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
873 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
874 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
875 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
881 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
883 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
885 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
886 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
887 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
889 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
891 It is now possible to embed newlines in
892 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
895 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
897 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
898 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
899 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
900 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
901 inside the result or message.
903 Search now uses the JSON format internally
905 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
906 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
908 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
909 user-specified formatting
911 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
912 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
913 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
914 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
915 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
917 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
918 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
920 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
921 ===========================
926 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
927 compilation error for this contrib package.
929 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
930 ===========================
935 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
937 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
938 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
939 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
940 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
942 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
943 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
946 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
947 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
948 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
949 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
952 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
954 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
957 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
958 =========================
960 Command-Line Interface
961 ----------------------
965 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
966 for a reply message and full information about the original message
967 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
968 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
970 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
971 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
972 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
973 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
977 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
978 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
980 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
981 tag in your query, for example:
983 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
985 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
986 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
988 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
989 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
991 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
993 Raw show format changes
995 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
996 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
997 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
998 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
999 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1000 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1001 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1002 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1004 Listing configuration items
1006 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1012 Changes to tagging interface
1014 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1015 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1016 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1017 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1018 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1019 for more information.
1021 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1022 may need to update in custom configurations.
1024 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1026 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1027 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1028 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1029 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1032 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1033 -----------------------------
1035 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1036 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1037 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1038 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1039 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1040 contrib/ from now on.
1045 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1046 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1048 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1049 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1051 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1052 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1053 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1055 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1056 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1058 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1059 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1060 returning the new database object or directory object.
1067 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1068 compatible with go 1.
1070 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1071 =========================
1073 Command-Line Interface
1074 ----------------------
1078 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1079 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1080 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1081 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1083 Mail store folder/file ignore
1085 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1086 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1087 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1089 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1090 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1092 Unified help and manual pages
1094 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1095 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1098 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1100 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1101 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1109 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1110 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1111 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1112 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1114 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1116 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1117 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1119 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1122 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1123 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1124 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1126 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1128 should be changed to:
1130 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1132 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1134 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1135 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1137 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1139 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1140 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1141 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1142 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1143 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1144 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1148 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1149 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1150 of Mailing List Archives.
1152 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1154 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1155 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1158 Show view archiving key binding changes
1160 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1161 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1162 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1163 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1164 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1167 Support text/calendar MIME type
1169 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1172 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1174 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1175 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1176 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1177 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1179 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1181 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1182 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1183 messages blue by default in the search view.
1187 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1188 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1195 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1198 Python bindings changes
1199 -----------------------
1201 Python 3.2 compatibility
1203 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1205 Added missing unicode conversions
1207 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1208 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1209 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1214 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1216 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1217 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1218 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1219 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1220 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1222 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1223 ===========================
1228 Fix error handling in python bindings
1230 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1231 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1232 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1233 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1235 Quote MML tags in replies
1237 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1238 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1239 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1240 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1241 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1242 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1243 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1244 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1246 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1247 =========================
1249 Command-Line Interface
1250 ----------------------
1254 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1255 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1256 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1257 importing new messages into the database.
1259 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1261 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1262 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1263 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1268 Automatic tag query optimization
1270 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1271 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1272 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1274 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1276 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1277 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1278 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1283 Reduction of memory leaks
1285 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1286 and fixed in this release.
1293 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1294 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1295 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1298 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1300 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1301 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1302 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1305 Improvements in saved search management
1307 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1308 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1309 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1311 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1313 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1314 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1315 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1317 New face for crypto parts headers
1319 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1320 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1321 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1324 Use space as default thousands separator
1326 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1327 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1328 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1330 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1331 buttonized id: links
1333 New function notmuch-show-advance
1335 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1336 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1337 be bound to SPC with:
1339 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1341 Various performance improvements
1346 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1347 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1350 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1351 ===========================
1356 Fix crash in python bindings
1358 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1359 for some, but not all users.
1361 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1362 ===========================
1367 Fix `--help` argument
1369 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1370 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1371 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1373 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1374 =========================
1376 New build and testing features
1377 ------------------------------
1379 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1380 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1381 prerequisites is improved.
1383 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1385 New command-line features
1386 -------------------------
1388 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1390 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1391 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1394 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1396 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1397 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1398 favour of using stdout.
1400 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1402 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1403 limit the number of results shown.
1405 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1407 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1408 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1411 New emacs UI features
1412 ---------------------
1414 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1416 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1417 starting with "tag:".
1419 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1421 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1422 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1424 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1426 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1428 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1430 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1431 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1436 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1438 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1440 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1441 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1442 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1443 requires a database rebuild:
1445 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1446 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1448 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1450 New collection of add-on tools
1451 ------------------------------
1453 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1454 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1455 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1458 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1460 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1461 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1462 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1464 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1465 ========================
1467 New, general features
1468 ---------------------
1470 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1472 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1473 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1474 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1475 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1476 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1483 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1484 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1486 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1490 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1491 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1492 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1495 Python bindings changes
1496 -----------------------
1498 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1500 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1501 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1502 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1503 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1504 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1505 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1507 Ruby bindings changes
1508 ---------------------
1510 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1511 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1512 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1513 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1518 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1520 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1521 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1523 Reply formatting cleanup
1524 ------------------------
1526 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1527 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1529 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1530 ========================
1532 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1534 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1535 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1536 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1537 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1540 Improved Build system portability
1542 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1543 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1544 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1546 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1548 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1550 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1552 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1553 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1554 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1556 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1557 ========================
1559 Vim interface improvements
1560 --------------------------
1562 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1564 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1565 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1566 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1567 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1568 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1570 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1572 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1573 * fix compose temp file name
1575 Python Bindings changes
1576 -----------------------
1578 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1580 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1581 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1583 Build-System improvements
1584 -------------------------
1586 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1588 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1591 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1592 ==========================
1597 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1599 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1600 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1602 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1603 =======================
1605 New, general features
1606 ---------------------
1608 Folder-based searching
1610 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1611 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1612 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1616 For example, one might use things such as:
1622 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1623 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1625 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1626 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1627 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1628 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1630 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1631 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1632 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1635 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1636 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1638 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1640 Support for PGP/MIME
1642 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1643 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1644 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1646 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1648 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1649 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1651 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1652 notmuch will receive these tags.
1654 New command-line features
1655 -------------------------
1657 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1659 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1660 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1662 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1664 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1665 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1666 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1668 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1670 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1671 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1672 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1673 which parts a signature part applies).
1675 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1677 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1678 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1679 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1680 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1681 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1684 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1686 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1687 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1688 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1689 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1690 by translating it internally to the new call.
1692 Performance improvements
1693 ------------------------
1695 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1697 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1698 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1699 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1701 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1702 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1704 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1706 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1707 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1708 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1710 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1711 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1712 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1713 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1715 Faster initial indexing
1717 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1718 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1719 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1721 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1723 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1724 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1725 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1726 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1728 New emacs-interface features
1729 ----------------------------
1731 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1733 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1734 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1735 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1736 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1737 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1738 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1740 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1742 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1743 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1744 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1745 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1747 User-selectable From address
1749 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1750 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1751 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1752 will prompt for the from address to use.
1754 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1755 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1756 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1758 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1759 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1760 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1763 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1765 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1766 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1768 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1770 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1772 ----- Original Message -----
1774 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1775 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1776 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1777 citations work much like conventional citations.
1779 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1781 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1782 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1783 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1784 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1785 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1787 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1788 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1790 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1792 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1793 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1794 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1796 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1798 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1799 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1800 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1801 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1802 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1804 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1806 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1809 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1811 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1813 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1815 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1818 Vim interface improvements
1819 --------------------------
1821 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1823 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1824 * Implementing archive in show view
1825 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1826 * Add delete commands
1829 Bindings improvements
1830 ---------------------
1832 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1834 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1835 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1837 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1839 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1843 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1844 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1845 `list(Messages)` works now
1846 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1848 These allow, for example:
1850 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1852 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1854 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1860 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1862 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1865 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1867 New build-system features
1868 -------------------------
1870 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1872 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1873 the configure script from some other directory:
1880 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1882 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1883 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1884 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1885 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1886 manual invocation of configure.
1888 New test-suite feature
1889 ----------------------
1891 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1893 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1894 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1895 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1896 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1897 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1900 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1902 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1903 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1904 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1905 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1906 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1907 are updated to take advantage of this.
1909 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1911 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1912 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1913 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1914 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1920 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1922 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1923 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1924 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1926 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1928 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1930 to:user@elsewhere.com
1932 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1934 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1936 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1938 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1939 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1940 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1943 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1944 from the Received headers in some cases
1946 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1947 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1949 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1951 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1953 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1955 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1956 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1957 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1959 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1960 -------------------------
1962 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1964 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1965 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1966 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1968 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1970 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1971 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1972 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1975 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1977 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1978 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1979 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1980 fixed to avoid this bug.
1982 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1984 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1985 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1987 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1988 ========================
1990 New, general features
1991 ---------------------
1993 Maildir-flag synchronization
1995 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1996 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2005 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2007 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2008 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2009 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2010 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2012 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2013 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2014 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2015 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2018 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2020 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2021 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2022 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2024 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2025 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2027 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2028 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2030 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2031 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2032 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2034 New library features
2035 --------------------
2037 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2039 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2040 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2041 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2042 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2044 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2045 message with the new function:
2047 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2049 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2050 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2051 over all available filenames for a given message.
2053 New command-line features
2054 -------------------------
2056 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2058 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2059 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2060 access to the mail store itself.
2062 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2063 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2064 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2065 name of a script containing:
2067 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2069 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2070 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2076 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2078 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2080 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2082 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2083 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2084 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2085 now produces nothing).
2087 Emacs interface improvements
2088 ----------------------------
2090 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2092 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2094 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2096 Display current thread subject in a header line
2098 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2100 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2102 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2103 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2104 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2105 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2106 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2107 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2108 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2110 Vim interface improvements
2111 --------------------------
2113 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2115 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2116 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2122 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2124 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2125 ========================
2127 New command-line features
2128 -------------------------
2130 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2132 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2133 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2134 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2136 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2137 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2138 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2139 scripts. For example:
2141 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2142 <operations-on> "$file"
2145 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2147 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2148 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2149 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2150 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2151 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2152 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2154 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2156 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2157 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2158 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2159 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2161 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2163 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2164 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2165 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2166 default rather than Bcc.
2168 New library features
2169 --------------------
2171 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2173 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2174 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2179 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2181 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2182 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2183 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2184 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2185 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2186 notmuch customize interface.
2188 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2190 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2191 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2192 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2193 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2195 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2197 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2198 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2199 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2200 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2202 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2204 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2205 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2206 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2207 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2208 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2209 notmuch customize interface.
2211 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2213 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2214 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2215 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2216 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2217 notmuch customize interface.
2219 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2221 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2222 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2223 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2224 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2227 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2229 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2230 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2231 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2234 New build-system features
2235 -------------------------
2237 Various portability fixes have been applied
2239 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2240 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2241 more portable than ever before.
2243 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2245 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2246 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2247 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2249 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2250 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2251 automatically run ldconfig.
2253 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2254 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2255 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2257 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2258 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2259 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2260 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2262 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2264 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2265 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2266 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2267 used in the resulting Makefile.
2269 New test-suite features
2270 -----------------------
2272 New modularization of test suite
2274 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2275 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2276 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2277 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2278 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2279 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2280 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2281 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2283 New testing of emacs interface
2285 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2286 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2287 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2288 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2289 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2290 database via the FCC setting.
2295 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2297 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2298 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2299 persistent error of the form:
2301 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2303 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2304 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2306 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2308 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2309 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2310 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2312 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2314 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2315 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2316 parsing the notmuch results).
2318 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2320 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2323 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2324 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2325 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2330 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2332 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2333 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2334 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2335 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2336 the emacs interface.
2338 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2340 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2341 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2342 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2344 Python-binding fixes
2345 --------------------
2347 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2349 Debian-specific fixes
2350 ---------------------
2352 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2354 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2355 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2356 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2359 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2360 ==========================
2365 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2367 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2368 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2369 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2370 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2372 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2374 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2375 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2376 want notmuch to crash.
2381 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2383 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2384 directory does not exist
2389 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2391 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2392 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2394 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2395 ========================
2397 New command-line features
2398 -------------------------
2400 User-configurable tags for new messages
2402 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2403 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2404 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2405 to specify this value.
2407 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2409 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2410 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2411 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2413 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2415 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2416 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2418 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2420 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2421 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2422 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2423 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2424 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2427 Indication of author names that match a search
2429 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2430 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2431 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2432 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2433 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2434 messages in the thread are listed first.
2436 New: Python bindings
2437 --------------------
2439 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2440 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2441 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2442 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2444 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2445 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2446 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2449 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2450 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2451 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2453 Emacs interface improvements
2454 ----------------------------
2456 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2458 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2459 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2460 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2461 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2462 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2463 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2464 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2465 but without any of the disadvantages).
2467 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2468 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2469 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2472 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2473 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2474 instead running something like:
2476 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2478 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2479 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2480 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2483 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2485 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2486 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2487 tweaked by the user.
2489 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2490 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2491 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2494 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2495 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2496 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2499 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2501 This support currently relies on an external program,
2502 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2503 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2504 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2505 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2506 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2509 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2510 notmuch) is available via:
2512 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2514 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2515 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2516 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2518 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2520 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2521 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2522 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2523 making this automatic in a future release.
2525 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2527 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2528 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2529 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2530 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2531 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2532 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2535 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2537 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2538 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2539 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2541 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2543 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2544 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2545 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2547 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2548 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2549 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2550 other representation.
2552 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2553 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2556 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2558 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2559 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2560 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2562 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2563 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2564 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2566 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2568 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2569 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2570 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2571 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2572 to display the search result.
2574 More flexible handling of header visibility
2576 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2577 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2578 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2579 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2580 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2581 with the 'h' keybinding.
2583 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2584 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2585 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2587 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2589 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2591 Customizable formatting of search results
2593 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2594 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2595 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2597 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2599 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2601 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2606 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2608 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2609 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2610 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2611 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2617 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2619 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2620 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2622 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2624 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2625 accept are now all accepted.
2630 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2632 Better display of output from failed tests
2634 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2635 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2637 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2638 ========================
2640 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2641 detailed release notes this time!
2643 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2644 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2646 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2647 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2648 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2649 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2656 Better guessing of From: header
2658 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2659 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2660 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2661 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2662 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2665 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2667 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2668 guaranteed to match all messages.
2670 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2672 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2673 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2674 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2675 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2676 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2679 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2682 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2683 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2684 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2685 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2690 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2692 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2693 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2694 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2695 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2697 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2699 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2701 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2702 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2703 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2705 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2707 Previously, the user might see:
2709 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2713 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2715 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2716 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2717 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2718 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2720 Emacs client features
2721 ---------------------
2723 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2725 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2726 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2727 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2728 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2729 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2731 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2734 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2735 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2736 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2737 search with the '*' binding.
2739 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2741 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2742 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2745 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2747 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2748 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2749 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2751 Build-system features
2752 ---------------------
2754 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2756 Add support to configure for many standard options
2758 We include actual support for:
2760 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2762 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2764 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2765 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2767 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2768 separate "make install-emacs"
2770 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2772 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2773 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2774 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2776 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2779 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2780 ========================
2782 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2784 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2785 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2787 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2788 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2789 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2790 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2791 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2792 tags from messages in a thread.
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