1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Top level option to redirect writes to stderr
40 With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to
41 the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout.
43 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
45 Bash command-line completion
47 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
48 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
49 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
50 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
51 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
52 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
53 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
54 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
55 bash-completion package.
60 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
61 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
62 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
63 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
64 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
69 New keymap to view/save parts
71 To view or save a single MIME part of a message, use the new "."
72 submap (e.g., ". s" to save, ". v" to view). Previously, these keys
73 were only available when point was on a part button and they did not
74 have the "." prefix, so they were difficult to invoke (impossible if
75 a part did not have a button) and clashed with other bindings.
76 These new bindings also appear in show's help, so you don't have to
79 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
81 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
82 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
83 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
85 Better handling of errors in search buffers
87 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
88 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
92 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
93 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
94 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
98 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
99 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
100 in question was now removed from this release.
102 Key bindings for next/previous thread
104 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
105 previous thread in the search results.
107 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
108 ===========================
113 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
115 Internal test framework changes
116 -------------------------------
118 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
121 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
122 ===========================
124 Internal test framework changes
125 -------------------------------
127 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
128 build failures in non-interactive environments.
130 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
131 =========================
136 Date range search support
138 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
139 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
140 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
141 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
142 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
145 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
147 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
148 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
149 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
150 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
151 but may be removed in a future release.
153 Command-Line Interface
154 ----------------------
156 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
158 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
159 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
161 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
163 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
164 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
165 officially deprecated.
167 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
169 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
170 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
171 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
173 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
175 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
176 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
179 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
180 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
183 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
185 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
186 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
187 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
189 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
191 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
192 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
193 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
195 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
197 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
198 output separated by null characters rather than newline
199 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
200 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
205 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
207 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
208 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
209 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
210 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
212 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
214 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
215 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
216 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
217 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
218 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
219 the behavior of this, see
220 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
221 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
223 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
224 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
225 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
227 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
229 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
230 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
233 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
235 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
236 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
237 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
238 simply displayed in place of the message.
240 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
242 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
243 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
245 Improved text/calendar content handling
247 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
248 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
249 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
250 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
252 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
254 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
255 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
256 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
257 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
259 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
261 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
262 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
263 for HTML email containing images.
265 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
267 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
269 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
271 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
274 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
276 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
277 the point where it was.
279 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
281 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
282 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
283 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
284 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
285 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
287 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
289 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
290 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
291 thread instead of the message id.
293 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
294 -----------------------------
296 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
297 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
298 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
299 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
300 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
301 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
302 further details and installation.
307 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
309 Internal test framework changes
310 -------------------------------
312 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
314 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
315 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
316 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
317 can result in buggy behavior.
319 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
320 =========================
325 Maildir tag synchronization
327 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
328 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
329 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
330 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
331 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
332 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
335 Command-Line Interface
336 ----------------------
338 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
339 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
340 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
341 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
342 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
348 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
350 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
352 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
353 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
354 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
356 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
358 It is now possible to embed newlines in
359 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
362 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
364 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
365 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
366 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
367 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
368 inside the result or message.
370 Search now uses the JSON format internally
372 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
373 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
375 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
376 user-specified formatting
378 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
379 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
380 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
381 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
382 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
384 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
385 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
387 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
388 ===========================
393 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
394 compilation error for this contrib package.
396 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
397 ===========================
402 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
404 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
405 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
406 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
407 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
409 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
410 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
413 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
414 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
415 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
416 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
419 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
421 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
424 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
425 =========================
427 Command-Line Interface
428 ----------------------
432 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
433 for a reply message and full information about the original message
434 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
435 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
437 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
438 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
439 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
440 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
444 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
445 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
447 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
448 tag in your query, for example:
450 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
452 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
453 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
455 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
456 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
458 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
460 Raw show format changes
462 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
463 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
464 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
465 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
466 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
467 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
468 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
469 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
471 Listing configuration items
473 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
479 Changes to tagging interface
481 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
482 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
483 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
484 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
485 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
486 for more information.
488 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
489 may need to update in custom configurations.
491 Reply improvement using the JSON format
493 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
494 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
495 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
496 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
499 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
500 -----------------------------
502 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
503 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
504 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
505 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
506 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
507 contrib/ from now on.
512 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
513 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
515 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
516 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
518 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
519 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
520 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
522 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
523 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
525 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
526 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
527 returning the new database object or directory object.
534 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
535 compatible with go 1.
537 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
538 =========================
540 Command-Line Interface
541 ----------------------
545 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
546 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
547 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
548 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
550 Mail store folder/file ignore
552 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
553 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
554 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
556 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
557 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
559 Unified help and manual pages
561 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
562 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
565 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
567 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
568 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
576 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
577 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
578 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
579 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
581 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
583 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
584 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
586 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
589 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
590 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
591 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
593 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
595 should be changed to:
597 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
599 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
601 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
602 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
604 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
606 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
607 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
608 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
609 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
610 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
611 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
615 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
616 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
617 of Mailing List Archives.
619 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
621 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
622 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
625 Show view archiving key binding changes
627 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
628 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
629 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
630 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
631 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
634 Support text/calendar MIME type
636 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
639 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
641 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
642 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
643 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
644 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
646 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
648 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
649 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
650 messages blue by default in the search view.
654 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
655 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
662 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
665 Python bindings changes
666 -----------------------
668 Python 3.2 compatibility
670 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
672 Added missing unicode conversions
674 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
675 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
676 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
681 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
683 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
684 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
685 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
686 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
687 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
689 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
690 ===========================
695 Fix error handling in python bindings
697 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
698 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
699 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
700 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
702 Quote MML tags in replies
704 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
705 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
706 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
707 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
708 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
709 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
710 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
711 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
713 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
714 =========================
716 Command-Line Interface
717 ----------------------
721 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
722 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
723 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
724 importing new messages into the database.
726 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
728 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
729 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
730 sometimes. This is now fixed.
735 Automatic tag query optimization
737 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
738 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
739 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
741 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
743 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
744 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
745 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
750 Reduction of memory leaks
752 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
753 and fixed in this release.
760 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
761 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
762 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
765 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
767 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
768 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
769 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
772 Improvements in saved search management
774 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
775 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
776 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
778 Hooks for notmuch-hello
780 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
781 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
782 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
784 New face for crypto parts headers
786 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
787 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
788 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
791 Use space as default thousands separator
793 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
794 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
795 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
797 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
800 New function notmuch-show-advance
802 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
803 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
804 be bound to SPC with:
806 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
808 Various performance improvements
813 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
814 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
817 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
818 ===========================
823 Fix crash in python bindings
825 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
826 for some, but not all users.
828 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
829 ===========================
834 Fix `--help` argument
836 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
837 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
838 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
840 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
841 =========================
843 New build and testing features
844 ------------------------------
846 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
847 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
848 prerequisites is improved.
850 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
852 New command-line features
853 -------------------------
855 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
857 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
858 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
861 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
863 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
864 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
865 favour of using stdout.
867 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
869 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
870 limit the number of results shown.
872 Add `notmuch count --output` option
874 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
875 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
878 New emacs UI features
879 ---------------------
881 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
883 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
884 starting with "tag:".
886 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
888 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
889 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
891 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
893 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
895 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
897 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
898 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
903 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
905 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
907 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
908 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
909 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
910 requires a database rebuild:
912 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
913 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
915 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
917 New collection of add-on tools
918 ------------------------------
920 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
921 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
922 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
925 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
927 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
928 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
929 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
931 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
932 ========================
934 New, general features
935 ---------------------
937 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
939 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
940 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
941 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
942 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
943 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
950 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
951 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
953 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
957 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
958 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
959 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
962 Python bindings changes
963 -----------------------
965 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
967 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
968 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
969 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
970 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
971 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
972 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
974 Ruby bindings changes
975 ---------------------
977 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
978 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
979 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
980 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
985 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
987 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
988 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
990 Reply formatting cleanup
991 ------------------------
993 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
994 MIME parts are being suppressed.
996 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
997 ========================
999 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1001 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1002 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1003 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1004 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1007 Improved Build system portability
1009 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1010 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1011 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1013 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1015 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1017 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1019 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1020 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1021 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1023 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1024 ========================
1026 Vim interface improvements
1027 --------------------------
1029 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1031 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1032 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1033 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1034 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1035 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1037 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1039 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1040 * fix compose temp file name
1042 Python Bindings changes
1043 -----------------------
1045 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1047 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1048 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1050 Build-System improvements
1051 -------------------------
1053 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1055 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1058 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1059 ==========================
1064 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1066 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1067 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1069 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1070 =======================
1072 New, general features
1073 ---------------------
1075 Folder-based searching
1077 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1078 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1079 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1083 For example, one might use things such as:
1089 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1090 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1092 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1093 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1094 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1095 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1097 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1098 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1099 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1102 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1103 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1105 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1107 Support for PGP/MIME
1109 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1110 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1111 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1113 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1115 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1116 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1118 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1119 notmuch will receive these tags.
1121 New command-line features
1122 -------------------------
1124 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1126 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1127 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1129 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1131 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1132 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1133 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1135 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1137 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1138 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1139 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1140 which parts a signature part applies).
1142 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1144 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1145 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1146 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1147 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1148 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1151 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1153 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1154 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1155 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1156 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1157 by translating it internally to the new call.
1159 Performance improvements
1160 ------------------------
1162 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1164 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1165 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1166 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1168 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1169 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1171 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1173 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1174 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1175 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1177 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1178 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1179 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1180 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1182 Faster initial indexing
1184 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1185 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1186 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1188 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1190 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1191 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1192 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1193 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1195 New emacs-interface features
1196 ----------------------------
1198 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1200 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1201 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1202 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1203 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1204 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1205 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1207 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1209 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1210 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1211 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1212 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1214 User-selectable From address
1216 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1217 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1218 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1219 will prompt for the from address to use.
1221 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1222 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1223 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1225 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1226 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1227 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1230 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1232 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1233 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1235 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1237 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1239 ----- Original Message -----
1241 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1242 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1243 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1244 citations work much like conventional citations.
1246 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1248 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1249 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1250 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1251 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1252 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1254 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1255 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1257 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1259 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1260 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1261 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1263 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1265 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1266 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1267 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1268 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1269 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1271 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1273 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1276 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1278 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1280 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1282 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1285 Vim interface improvements
1286 --------------------------
1288 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1290 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1291 * Implementing archive in show view
1292 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1293 * Add delete commands
1296 Bindings improvements
1297 ---------------------
1299 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1301 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1302 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1304 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1306 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1310 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1311 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1312 `list(Messages)` works now
1313 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1315 These allow, for example:
1317 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1319 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1321 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1327 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1329 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1332 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1334 New build-system features
1335 -------------------------
1337 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1339 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1340 the configure script from some other directory:
1347 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1349 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1350 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1351 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1352 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1353 manual invocation of configure.
1355 New test-suite feature
1356 ----------------------
1358 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1360 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1361 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1362 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1363 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1364 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1367 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1369 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1370 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1371 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1372 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1373 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1374 are updated to take advantage of this.
1376 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1378 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1379 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1380 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1381 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1387 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1389 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1390 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1391 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1393 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1395 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1397 to:user@elsewhere.com
1399 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1401 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1403 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1405 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1406 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1407 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1410 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1411 from the Received headers in some cases
1413 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1414 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1416 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1418 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1420 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1422 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1423 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1424 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1426 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1427 -------------------------
1429 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1431 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1432 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1433 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1435 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1437 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1438 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1439 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1442 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1444 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1445 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1446 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1447 fixed to avoid this bug.
1449 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1451 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1452 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1454 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1455 ========================
1457 New, general features
1458 ---------------------
1460 Maildir-flag synchronization
1462 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1463 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1472 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1474 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1475 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1476 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1477 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1479 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1480 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1481 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1482 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1485 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1487 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1488 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1489 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1491 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1492 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1494 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1495 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1497 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1498 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1499 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1501 New library features
1502 --------------------
1504 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1506 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1507 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1508 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1509 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1511 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1512 message with the new function:
1514 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1516 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1517 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1518 over all available filenames for a given message.
1520 New command-line features
1521 -------------------------
1523 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1525 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1526 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1527 access to the mail store itself.
1529 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1530 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1531 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1532 name of a script containing:
1534 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1536 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1537 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1543 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1545 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1547 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1549 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1550 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1551 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1552 now produces nothing).
1554 Emacs interface improvements
1555 ----------------------------
1557 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1559 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1561 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1563 Display current thread subject in a header line
1565 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1567 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1569 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1570 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1571 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1572 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1573 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1574 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1575 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1577 Vim interface improvements
1578 --------------------------
1580 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1582 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1583 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1589 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1591 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1592 ========================
1594 New command-line features
1595 -------------------------
1597 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1599 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1600 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1601 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1603 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1604 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1605 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1606 scripts. For example:
1608 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1609 <operations-on> "$file"
1612 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1614 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1615 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1616 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1617 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1618 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1619 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1621 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1623 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1624 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1625 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1626 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1628 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1630 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1631 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1632 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1633 default rather than Bcc.
1635 New library features
1636 --------------------
1638 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1640 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1641 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1646 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1648 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1649 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1650 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1651 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1652 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1653 notmuch customize interface.
1655 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1657 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1658 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1659 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1660 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1662 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1664 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1665 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1666 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1667 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1669 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1671 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1672 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1673 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1674 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1675 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1676 notmuch customize interface.
1678 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1680 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1681 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1682 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1683 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1684 notmuch customize interface.
1686 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1688 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1689 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1690 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1691 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1694 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1696 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1697 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1698 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1701 New build-system features
1702 -------------------------
1704 Various portability fixes have been applied
1706 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1707 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1708 more portable than ever before.
1710 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1712 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1713 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1714 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1716 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1717 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1718 automatically run ldconfig.
1720 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1721 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1722 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1724 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1725 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1726 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1727 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1729 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1731 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1732 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1733 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1734 used in the resulting Makefile.
1736 New test-suite features
1737 -----------------------
1739 New modularization of test suite
1741 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1742 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1743 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1744 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1745 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1746 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1747 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1748 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1750 New testing of emacs interface
1752 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1753 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1754 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1755 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1756 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1757 database via the FCC setting.
1762 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1764 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1765 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1766 persistent error of the form:
1768 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1770 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1771 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1773 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1775 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1776 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1777 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1779 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1781 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1782 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1783 parsing the notmuch results).
1785 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1787 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1790 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1791 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1792 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1797 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1799 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1800 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1801 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1802 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1803 the emacs interface.
1805 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1807 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1808 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1809 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1811 Python-binding fixes
1812 --------------------
1814 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1816 Debian-specific fixes
1817 ---------------------
1819 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1821 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1822 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1823 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1826 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1827 ==========================
1832 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1834 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1835 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1836 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1837 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1839 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1841 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1842 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1843 want notmuch to crash.
1848 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1850 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1851 directory does not exist
1856 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1858 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1859 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1861 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1862 ========================
1864 New command-line features
1865 -------------------------
1867 User-configurable tags for new messages
1869 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1870 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1871 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1872 to specify this value.
1874 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1876 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1877 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1878 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1880 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1882 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1883 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1885 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1887 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1888 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1889 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1890 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1891 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1894 Indication of author names that match a search
1896 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1897 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1898 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1899 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1900 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1901 messages in the thread are listed first.
1903 New: Python bindings
1904 --------------------
1906 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1907 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1908 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1909 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1911 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1912 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1913 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1916 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1917 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1918 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1920 Emacs interface improvements
1921 ----------------------------
1923 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1925 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1926 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1927 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1928 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1929 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1930 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1931 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1932 but without any of the disadvantages).
1934 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1935 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1936 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1939 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1940 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1941 instead running something like:
1943 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1945 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1946 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1947 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1950 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1952 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1953 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1954 tweaked by the user.
1956 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1957 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1958 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1961 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1962 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1963 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1966 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1968 This support currently relies on an external program,
1969 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1970 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1971 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1972 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1973 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1976 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1977 notmuch) is available via:
1979 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1981 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1982 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1983 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1985 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1987 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1988 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1989 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1990 making this automatic in a future release.
1992 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1994 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1995 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1996 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1997 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1998 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1999 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2002 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2004 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2005 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2006 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2008 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2010 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2011 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2012 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2014 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2015 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2016 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2017 other representation.
2019 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2020 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2023 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2025 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2026 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2027 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2029 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2030 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2031 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2033 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2035 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2036 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2037 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2038 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2039 to display the search result.
2041 More flexible handling of header visibility
2043 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2044 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2045 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2046 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2047 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2048 with the 'h' keybinding.
2050 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2051 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2052 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2054 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2056 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2058 Customizable formatting of search results
2060 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2061 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2062 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2064 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2066 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2068 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2073 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2075 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2076 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2077 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2078 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2084 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2086 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2087 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2089 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2091 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2092 accept are now all accepted.
2097 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2099 Better display of output from failed tests
2101 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2102 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2104 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2105 ========================
2107 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2108 detailed release notes this time!
2110 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2111 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2113 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2114 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2115 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2116 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2123 Better guessing of From: header
2125 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2126 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2127 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2128 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2129 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2132 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2134 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2135 guaranteed to match all messages.
2137 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2139 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2140 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2141 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2142 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2143 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2146 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2149 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2150 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2151 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2152 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2157 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2159 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2160 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2161 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2162 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2164 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2166 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2168 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2169 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2170 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2172 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2174 Previously, the user might see:
2176 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2180 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2182 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2183 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2184 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2185 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2187 Emacs client features
2188 ---------------------
2190 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2192 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2193 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2194 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2195 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2196 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2198 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2201 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2202 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2203 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2204 search with the '*' binding.
2206 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2208 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2209 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2212 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2214 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2215 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2216 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2218 Build-system features
2219 ---------------------
2221 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2223 Add support to configure for many standard options
2225 We include actual support for:
2227 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2229 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2231 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2232 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2234 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2235 separate "make install-emacs"
2237 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2239 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2240 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2241 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2243 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2246 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2247 ========================
2249 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2251 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2252 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2254 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2255 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2256 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2257 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2258 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2259 tags from messages in a thread.
2266 indent-tabs-mode: nil