1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results unless they
17 appear explicitly in a query. By default, notmuch excludes the tags
18 deleted and spam. This can be changed using the new config setting
19 search.auto_exclude_tags.
26 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
27 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
28 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
29 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
36 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
39 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
40 =========================
42 Command-Line Interface
43 ----------------------
47 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
48 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
49 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
50 importing new messages into the database.
52 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
54 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
55 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
56 sometimes. This is now fixed.
61 Automatic tag query optimization
63 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
64 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
65 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
67 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
69 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
70 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
71 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
76 Reduction of memory leaks
78 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
79 and fixed in this release.
86 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
87 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
88 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
91 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
93 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
94 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
95 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
98 Improvements in saved search management
100 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
101 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
102 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
104 Hooks for notmuch-hello
106 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
107 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
108 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
110 New face for crypto parts headers
112 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
113 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
114 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
117 Use space as default thousands separator
119 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
120 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
121 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
123 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
124 buttonized id: links.
126 New function notmuch-show-advance
128 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
129 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
130 be bound to SPC with:
132 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
134 Various performance improvements.
139 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
140 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
143 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
144 ===========================
149 Fix crash in python bindings.
151 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
152 for some, but not all users.
154 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
155 ===========================
162 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
163 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
166 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
167 =========================
169 New build and testing features
170 ------------------------------
172 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
173 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
174 prerequisites is improved.
176 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
178 New command-line features
179 -------------------------
181 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
183 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
184 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
187 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
189 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
190 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
191 favour of using stdout.
193 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
195 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
196 the number of results shown.
198 Add "notmuch count --output" option
200 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
201 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
203 New emacs UI features
204 ---------------------
206 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
208 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
209 starting with "tag:".
211 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
213 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
214 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
216 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
218 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
220 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
222 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
223 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
228 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
230 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
232 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
233 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
234 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
235 requires a database rebuild:
237 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
238 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
240 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
242 New collection of add-on tools
243 ------------------------------
245 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
246 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
247 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
250 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
252 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
253 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
254 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
256 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
257 ========================
259 New, general features
260 ---------------------
262 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
264 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
265 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
266 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
267 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
268 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
275 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
276 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
278 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
282 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
283 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
284 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
287 Python bindings changes
288 -----------------------
290 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
292 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
293 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
294 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
295 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
296 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
297 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
299 Ruby bindings changes
300 ---------------------
302 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
303 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
304 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
305 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
310 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
312 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
313 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
315 Reply formatting cleanup
316 ------------------------
318 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
319 MIME parts are being suppressed.
321 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
322 ========================
324 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
326 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
327 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
328 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
329 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
332 Improved Build system portability
334 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
335 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
336 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
338 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
340 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
342 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
344 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
345 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
346 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
348 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
349 ========================
351 Vim interface improvements
352 --------------------------
354 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
356 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
357 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
358 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
359 * fix from list reformatting in search view
360 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
362 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
364 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
365 * fix compose temp file name
367 Python Bindings changes
368 -----------------------
370 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
372 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
373 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
375 Build-System improvements
376 ------------------------
378 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
380 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
383 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
384 ==========================
389 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
391 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
392 people running gcc 4.4.5.
394 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
395 =======================
396 New, general features
397 ---------------------
398 Folder-based searching
400 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
401 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
402 storage). The syntax is as follows:
406 For example, one might use things such as:
412 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
413 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
415 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
416 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
417 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
418 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
420 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
421 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
422 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
425 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
426 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
428 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
432 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
433 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
434 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
436 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
438 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
439 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
441 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
442 notmuch will receive these tags.
444 New command-line features
445 -------------------------
446 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
448 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
449 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
451 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
453 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
454 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
455 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
457 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
459 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
460 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
461 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
462 which parts a signature part applies).
464 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
466 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
467 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
468 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
469 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
470 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
473 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
475 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
476 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
477 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
478 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
479 by translating it internally to the new call.
481 Performance improvements
482 ------------------------
483 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
485 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
486 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
487 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
489 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
490 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
492 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
494 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
495 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
496 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
498 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
499 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
500 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
501 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
503 Faster initial indexing
505 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
506 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
507 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
509 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
511 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
512 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
513 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
514 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
516 New emacs-interface features
517 ----------------------------
519 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
521 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
522 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
523 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
524 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
525 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
526 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
528 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
530 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
531 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
532 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
533 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
535 User-selectable From address
537 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
538 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
539 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
540 will prompt for the from address to use.
542 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
543 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
544 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
546 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
547 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
548 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
551 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
553 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
554 its parent, the subject is not shown.
556 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
558 When a message contains a line looking something like:
560 ----- Original Message -----
562 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
563 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
564 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
565 citations work much like conventional citations.
567 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
569 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
570 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
571 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
572 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
573 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
575 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
576 Notmuch After Tag Hook
578 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
580 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
581 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
582 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
584 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
586 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
587 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
588 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
589 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
590 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
592 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
594 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
597 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
599 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
601 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
602 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
604 Vim interface improvements
605 --------------------------
606 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
608 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
609 * Implementing archive in show view
610 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
611 * Add delete commands
614 Bindings improvements
615 ---------------------
616 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
618 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
619 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
621 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
622 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
625 - Message().get_filenames(),
626 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
627 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
629 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
630 These allow, for example:
633 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
635 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
640 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
641 Use len(list(Messages())) or
642 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
644 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
646 New build-system features
647 -------------------------
648 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
650 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
651 the configure script from some other directory:
658 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
660 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
661 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
662 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
663 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
664 manual invocation of configure.
666 New test-suite feature
667 ----------------------
668 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
670 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
671 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
672 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
673 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
674 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
677 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
679 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
680 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
681 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
682 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
683 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
684 are updated to take advantage of this.
686 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
688 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
689 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
690 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
691 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
696 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
698 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
699 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
700 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
702 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
704 This fixed a bug where a search for:
706 to:user@elsewhere.com
708 would incorrectly match a message sent:
710 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
712 Fix --output=json when search has no results
714 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
715 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
716 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
719 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
720 from the Received headers in some cases.
722 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
723 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
725 Cleaned up several memory leaks
727 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
729 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
731 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
732 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
733 interface and were never intended to be exported.
735 Emacs-interface bug fixes
736 -------------------------
737 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
739 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
740 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
741 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
743 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
745 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
746 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
747 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
750 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
752 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
753 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
754 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
755 fixed to avoid this bug.
757 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
759 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
760 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
762 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
763 ========================
764 New, general features
765 ---------------------
766 Maildir-flag synchronization
768 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
769 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
778 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
780 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
781 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
782 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
783 renamed with an 'R' flag).
785 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
786 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
787 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
788 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
791 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
793 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
794 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
795 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
797 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
798 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
800 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
801 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
803 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
804 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
805 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
809 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
811 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
812 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
813 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
814 notmuch_message_get_filename).
816 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
817 message with the new function:
819 notmuch_message_get_filenames
821 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
822 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
823 all available filenames for a given message.
825 New command-line features
826 -------------------------
827 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
829 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
830 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
831 access to the mail store itself.
833 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
834 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
835 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
836 name of a script containing:
838 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
840 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
841 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
846 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
848 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
850 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
852 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
853 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
854 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
855 now produces nothing).
857 Emacs interface improvements
858 ----------------------------
859 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
861 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
863 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
865 Display current thread subject in a header line.
867 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
869 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
871 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
872 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
873 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
874 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
875 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
876 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
877 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
879 Vim interface improvements
880 --------------------------
881 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
883 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
884 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
889 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
891 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
892 ========================
893 New command-line features
894 -------------------------
895 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
897 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
898 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
899 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
901 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
902 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
903 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
904 scripts. For example:
906 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
907 <operations-on> "$file"
910 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
912 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
913 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
914 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
915 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
916 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
917 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
919 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
921 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
922 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
923 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
924 custom items stored in the configuration file.
926 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
928 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
929 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
930 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
931 default rather than Bcc.
935 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
937 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
938 notmuch_query_t object.
942 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
944 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
945 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
946 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
947 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
948 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
949 notmuch customize interface.
951 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
953 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
954 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
955 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
956 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
958 Optional support for detecting inline patches
960 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
961 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
962 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
963 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
965 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
967 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
968 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
969 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
970 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
971 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
972 notmuch customize interface.
974 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
976 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
977 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
978 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
979 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
980 notmuch customize interface.
982 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
984 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
985 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
986 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
987 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
990 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
992 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
993 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
994 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
997 New build-system features
998 -------------------------
999 Various portability fixes have been applied
1001 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1002 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1003 more portable than ever before.
1005 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1007 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1008 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1009 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1011 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1012 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1013 automatically run ldconfig.
1015 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1016 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1017 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1019 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1020 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1021 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1022 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1024 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1026 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1027 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1028 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1029 used in the resulting Makefile.
1031 New test-suite features
1032 -----------------------
1033 New modularization of test suite.
1035 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1036 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1037 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1038 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1039 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1040 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1041 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1042 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1044 New testing of emacs interface.
1046 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1047 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1048 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1049 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1050 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1051 database via the FCC setting.
1055 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1057 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1058 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1059 persistent error of the form:
1061 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1063 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1064 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1066 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1068 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1069 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1070 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1072 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1074 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1075 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1076 parsing the notmuch results).
1078 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1080 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1082 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1083 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1084 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1088 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1090 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1091 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1092 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1093 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1094 the emacs interface.
1096 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1098 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1099 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1100 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1102 Python-binding fixes
1103 --------------------
1104 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1106 Debian-specific fixes
1107 ---------------------
1108 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1110 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1111 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1112 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1115 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1116 ==========================
1119 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1121 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1122 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1123 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1124 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1126 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1128 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1129 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1130 want notmuch to crash.
1134 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1136 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1137 directory does not exist.
1141 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1143 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1144 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1146 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1147 ========================
1148 New command-line features
1149 -------------------------
1150 User-configurable tags for new messages
1152 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1153 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1154 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1155 to specify this value.
1157 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1159 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1160 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1161 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1163 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1165 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1166 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1168 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1170 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1171 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1172 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1173 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1174 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1177 Indication of author names that match a search
1179 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1180 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1181 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1182 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1183 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1184 messages in the thread are listed first.
1186 New: Python bindings
1187 --------------------
1188 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1189 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1190 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1191 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1193 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1194 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1195 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1198 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1199 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1200 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1202 Emacs interface improvements
1203 ----------------------------
1204 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1206 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1207 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1208 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1209 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1210 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1211 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1212 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1213 but without any of the disadvantages).
1215 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1216 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1217 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1220 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1221 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1222 recommend instead running something like:
1224 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1226 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1227 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1228 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1231 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1233 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1234 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1235 tweaked by the user.
1237 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1238 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1239 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1242 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1243 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1244 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1247 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1249 This support currently relies on an external program,
1250 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1251 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1252 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1253 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1254 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1257 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1258 notmuch) is available via:
1260 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1262 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1263 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1264 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1266 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1268 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1269 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1270 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1271 making this automatic in a future release.
1273 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1275 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1276 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1277 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1278 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1279 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1280 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1283 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1285 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1286 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1287 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1289 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1291 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1292 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1293 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1295 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1296 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1297 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1298 other representation.
1300 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1301 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1304 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1306 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1307 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1308 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1310 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1311 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1312 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1314 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1316 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1317 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1318 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1319 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1320 to display the search result.
1322 More flexible handling of header visibility
1324 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1325 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1326 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1327 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1328 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1329 with the 'h' keybinding.
1331 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1332 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1333 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1335 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1337 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1339 Customizable formatting of search results
1341 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1342 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1343 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1345 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1347 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1349 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1353 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1355 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1356 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1357 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1358 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1363 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1365 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1366 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1368 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1370 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1371 accept are now all accepted.
1375 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1377 Better display of output from failed tests.
1379 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1380 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1382 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1383 ========================
1384 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1385 detailed release notes this time!
1387 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1388 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1390 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1391 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1392 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1393 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1399 Better guessing of From: header.
1401 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1402 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1403 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1404 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1405 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1408 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1410 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1411 guaranteed to match all messages.
1413 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1415 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1416 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1417 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1418 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1419 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1422 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1425 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1426 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1427 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1428 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1432 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1434 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1435 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1436 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1437 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1439 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1441 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1443 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1444 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1445 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1447 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1449 Previously, the user might see:
1451 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1455 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1457 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1458 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1459 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1460 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1462 Emacs client features
1463 ---------------------
1464 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1466 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1467 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1468 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1469 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1470 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1472 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1475 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1476 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1477 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1478 search with the '*' binding.
1480 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1482 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1483 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1486 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1488 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1489 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1490 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1492 Build-system features
1493 ---------------------
1494 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1496 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1498 We include actual support for:
1500 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1502 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1504 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1505 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1507 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1508 separate "make install-emacs".
1510 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1512 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1513 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1514 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1516 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1519 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1520 ========================
1521 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1523 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1524 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1526 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1527 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1528 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1529 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1530 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1531 tags from messages in a thread.