1 Notmuch 0.20 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
9 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
10 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
11 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
16 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
17 docmumentation has been removed.
22 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
23 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
24 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
26 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
27 =========================
32 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
33 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
34 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
35 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
36 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
37 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
38 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
40 Command-Line Interface
41 ----------------------
43 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
45 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
46 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
47 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
48 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
49 script callers should still check the return value.
51 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
53 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
54 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
55 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
56 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
57 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
58 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
59 and returning success even if indexing fails).
61 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
63 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
64 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
65 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
67 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
69 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
70 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
71 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
72 currently unmaintained.
74 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
76 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
77 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
78 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
79 have at least `N` files associated with them.
81 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
83 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
84 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
85 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
86 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
87 count of duplicate addresses.
92 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
94 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
95 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
96 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
99 Improved handling of the unread tag
101 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
102 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
103 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
104 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
105 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
106 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
107 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
109 Expanded default saved search settings
111 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
112 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
114 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
116 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
117 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
118 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
120 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
122 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
123 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
124 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
125 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
126 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
127 the variable for details.
132 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
134 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
135 Representing these independently of the database version number will
136 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
137 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
139 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
141 Previously, library users were required to call
142 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
143 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
144 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
145 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
146 too out of date for that API.
148 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
150 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
151 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
152 atomic section will be aborted.
154 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
155 `notmuch_database_destroy`
157 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
159 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
160 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
161 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
162 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
163 messages into the same thread.
168 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
169 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
170 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
171 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
172 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
173 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
178 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
179 from the config file. Use something like:
183 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
184 "footer": "</body></html>",
193 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
198 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
199 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
200 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
202 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
203 ===========================
208 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
210 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
212 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
214 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
215 structure for signatures changed slightly.
217 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
219 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
222 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
223 ===========================
225 This is a bug fix and portability release.
230 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
232 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
234 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
236 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
238 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
244 Use --quick when starting emacs
246 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
248 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
250 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
252 Command-Line Interface
253 ----------------------
255 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
256 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
261 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
263 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
264 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
266 Fix for phrase indexing
268 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
269 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
270 will affect only newly indexed messages.
275 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
277 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
278 unintentionally removed.
280 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
281 =========================
286 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
287 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
288 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
289 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
290 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
291 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
292 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
293 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
294 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
300 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
302 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
303 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
304 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
305 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
306 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
307 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
308 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
309 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
311 There is a new `path:` search prefix
313 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
314 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
315 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
316 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
319 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
321 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
322 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
323 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
324 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
325 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
326 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
327 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
332 Notmuch database upgrade
334 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
335 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
336 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
337 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
338 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
339 released version of Notmuch before now.
341 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
343 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
344 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
345 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
346 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
348 Message header parsing changes
350 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
351 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
352 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
353 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
354 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
355 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
357 Command-Line Interface
358 ----------------------
360 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
362 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
364 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
366 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
368 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
370 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
371 user does not want it.
373 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
375 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
376 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
377 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
378 support formatted output.
380 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
382 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
383 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
384 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
392 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
393 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
394 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
395 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
396 `~/.emacs` with these.
398 Changed format for saved searches
400 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
401 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
402 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
403 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
406 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
407 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
408 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
409 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
411 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
412 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
413 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
415 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
416 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
417 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
418 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
419 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
421 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
423 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
424 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
425 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
427 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
429 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
430 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
431 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
432 message had been unread).
434 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
435 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
436 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
437 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
439 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
440 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
441 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
443 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
444 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
445 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
446 to tags already present.
450 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
451 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
452 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
453 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
454 these differ from each other.
455 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
457 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
459 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
460 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
461 for these Emacs versions.
463 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
465 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
466 newlines before calling notmuch count.
468 Bug fixes for sender identities
470 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
471 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
472 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
474 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
476 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
477 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
478 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
479 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
481 Reply pushes mark before signature
483 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
484 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
485 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
487 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
489 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
490 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
496 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
497 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
499 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
500 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
501 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
502 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
504 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
505 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
506 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
507 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
508 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
510 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
512 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
513 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
515 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
516 =========================
518 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
519 ---------------------------------------
521 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
522 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
523 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
524 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
525 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
526 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
527 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
531 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
532 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
534 Command-Line Interface
535 ----------------------
537 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
539 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
540 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
541 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
542 print for each message.
544 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
545 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
546 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
547 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
549 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
551 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
552 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
553 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
555 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
557 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
558 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
559 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
560 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
562 `notmuch compact` command
564 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
565 functionality through a more convenient interface than
566 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
567 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
568 move the compacted database into place.
573 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
575 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
576 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
577 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
578 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
579 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
580 and multiple threads.
584 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
586 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
587 search, show and tree mode itself)
589 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
592 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
593 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
595 Customising `notmuch-tree`
597 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
598 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
599 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
600 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
601 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
602 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
603 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
605 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
607 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
608 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
609 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
610 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
611 thread when the search was performed.
613 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
615 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
616 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
617 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
619 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
621 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
622 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
625 Built-in help improvements
627 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
628 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
629 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
631 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
633 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
634 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
635 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
637 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
639 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
640 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
642 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
644 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
645 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
646 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
647 to move some of them to the common keymap.
649 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
651 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
652 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
653 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
654 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
656 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
658 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
659 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
660 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
662 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
664 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
665 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
666 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
668 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
670 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
671 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
672 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
673 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
674 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
676 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
678 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
679 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
680 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
681 the body part of the message.
686 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
687 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
688 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
690 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
691 =========================
693 Command-Line Interface
694 ----------------------
696 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
698 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
699 folder and notmuch index.
701 `notmuch count --batch` option
703 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
704 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
706 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
708 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
709 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
710 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
713 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
715 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
716 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
717 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
718 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
719 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
722 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
724 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
725 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
727 Top level option to specify configuration file
729 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
730 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
732 Bash command-line completion
734 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
735 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
736 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
737 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
738 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
739 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
740 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
741 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
742 bash-completion package.
744 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
749 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
751 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
752 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
753 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
754 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
755 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
756 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
757 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
758 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
760 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
762 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
763 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
764 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
766 Key bindings for next/previous thread
768 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
769 previous thread in the search results.
771 Better handling of errors in search buffers
773 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
774 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
776 Faster search and show
778 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
779 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
780 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
781 threads should show faster.
785 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
786 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
787 in question was now removed from this release.
792 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
793 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
798 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
800 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
801 ===========================
806 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
808 Internal test framework changes
809 -------------------------------
811 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
814 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
815 ===========================
817 Internal test framework changes
818 -------------------------------
820 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
821 build failures in non-interactive environments.
823 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
824 =========================
829 Date range search support
831 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
832 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
833 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
834 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
835 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
838 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
840 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
841 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
842 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
843 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
844 but may be removed in a future release.
846 Command-Line Interface
847 ----------------------
849 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
851 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
852 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
854 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
856 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
857 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
858 officially deprecated.
860 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
862 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
863 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
864 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
866 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
868 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
869 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
872 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
873 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
876 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
878 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
879 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
880 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
882 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
884 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
885 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
886 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
888 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
890 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
891 output separated by null characters rather than newline
892 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
893 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
898 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
900 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
901 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
902 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
903 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
905 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
907 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
908 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
909 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
910 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
911 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
912 the behavior of this, see
913 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
914 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
916 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
917 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
918 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
920 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
922 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
923 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
926 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
928 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
929 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
930 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
931 simply displayed in place of the message.
933 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
935 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
936 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
938 Improved text/calendar content handling
940 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
941 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
942 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
943 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
945 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
947 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
948 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
949 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
950 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
952 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
954 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
955 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
956 for HTML email containing images.
958 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
960 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
962 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
964 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
967 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
969 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
970 the point where it was.
972 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
974 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
975 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
976 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
977 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
978 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
980 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
982 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
983 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
984 thread instead of the message id.
986 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
987 -----------------------------
989 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
990 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
991 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
992 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
993 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
994 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
995 further details and installation.
1000 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1002 Internal test framework changes
1003 -------------------------------
1005 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1007 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1008 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1009 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1010 can result in buggy behavior.
1012 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1013 =========================
1018 Maildir tag synchronization
1020 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1021 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1022 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1023 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1024 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1025 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1028 Command-Line Interface
1029 ----------------------
1031 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1032 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1033 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1034 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1035 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1041 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1043 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1045 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1046 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1047 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1049 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1051 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1052 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1053 span multiple lines.
1055 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1057 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1058 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1059 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1060 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1061 inside the result or message.
1063 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1065 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1066 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1068 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1069 user-specified formatting
1071 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1072 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1073 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1074 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1075 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1077 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1078 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1080 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1081 ===========================
1086 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1087 compilation error for this contrib package.
1089 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1090 ===========================
1095 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1097 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1098 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1099 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1100 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1102 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1103 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1106 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1107 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1108 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1109 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1112 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1114 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1117 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1118 =========================
1120 Command-Line Interface
1121 ----------------------
1125 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1126 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1127 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1128 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1130 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1131 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1132 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1133 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1137 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1138 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1140 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1141 tag in your query, for example:
1143 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1145 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1146 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1148 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1149 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1151 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1153 Raw show format changes
1155 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1156 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1157 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1158 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1159 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1160 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1161 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1162 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1164 Listing configuration items
1166 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1172 Changes to tagging interface
1174 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1175 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1176 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1177 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1178 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1179 for more information.
1181 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1182 may need to update in custom configurations.
1184 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1186 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1187 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1188 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1189 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1192 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1193 -----------------------------
1195 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1196 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1197 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1198 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1199 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1200 contrib/ from now on.
1205 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1206 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1208 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1209 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1211 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1212 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1213 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1215 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1216 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1218 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1219 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1220 returning the new database object or directory object.
1227 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1228 compatible with go 1.
1230 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1231 =========================
1233 Command-Line Interface
1234 ----------------------
1238 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1239 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1240 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1241 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1243 Mail store folder/file ignore
1245 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1246 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1247 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1249 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1250 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1252 Unified help and manual pages
1254 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1255 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1258 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1260 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1261 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1269 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1270 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1271 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1272 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1274 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1276 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1277 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1279 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1282 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1283 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1284 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1286 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1288 should be changed to:
1290 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1292 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1294 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1295 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1297 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1299 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1300 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1301 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1302 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1303 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1304 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1308 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1309 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1310 of Mailing List Archives.
1312 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1314 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1315 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1318 Show view archiving key binding changes
1320 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1321 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1322 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1323 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1324 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1327 Support text/calendar MIME type
1329 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1332 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1334 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1335 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1336 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1337 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1339 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1341 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1342 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1343 messages blue by default in the search view.
1347 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1348 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1355 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1358 Python bindings changes
1359 -----------------------
1361 Python 3.2 compatibility
1363 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1365 Added missing unicode conversions
1367 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1368 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1369 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1374 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1376 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1377 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1378 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1379 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1380 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1382 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1383 ===========================
1388 Fix error handling in python bindings
1390 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1391 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1392 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1393 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1395 Quote MML tags in replies
1397 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1398 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1399 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1400 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1401 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1402 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1403 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1404 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1406 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1407 =========================
1409 Command-Line Interface
1410 ----------------------
1414 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1415 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1416 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1417 importing new messages into the database.
1419 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1421 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1422 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1423 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1428 Automatic tag query optimization
1430 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1431 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1432 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1434 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1436 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1437 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1438 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1443 Reduction of memory leaks
1445 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1446 and fixed in this release.
1453 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1454 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1455 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1458 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1460 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1461 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1462 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1465 Improvements in saved search management
1467 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1468 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1469 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1471 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1473 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1474 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1475 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1477 New face for crypto parts headers
1479 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1480 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1481 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1484 Use space as default thousands separator
1486 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1487 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1488 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1490 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1491 buttonized id: links
1493 New function notmuch-show-advance
1495 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1496 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1497 be bound to SPC with:
1499 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1501 Various performance improvements
1506 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1507 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1510 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1511 ===========================
1516 Fix crash in python bindings
1518 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1519 for some, but not all users.
1521 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1522 ===========================
1527 Fix `--help` argument
1529 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1530 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1531 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1533 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1534 =========================
1536 New build and testing features
1537 ------------------------------
1539 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1540 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1541 prerequisites is improved.
1543 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1545 New command-line features
1546 -------------------------
1548 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1550 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1551 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1554 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1556 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1557 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1558 favour of using stdout.
1560 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1562 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1563 limit the number of results shown.
1565 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1567 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1568 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1571 New emacs UI features
1572 ---------------------
1574 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1576 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1577 starting with "tag:".
1579 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1581 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1582 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1584 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1586 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1588 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1590 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1591 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1596 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1598 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1600 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1601 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1602 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1603 requires a database rebuild:
1605 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1606 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1608 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1610 New collection of add-on tools
1611 ------------------------------
1613 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1614 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1615 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1618 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1620 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1621 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1622 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1624 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1625 ========================
1627 New, general features
1628 ---------------------
1630 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1632 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1633 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1634 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1635 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1636 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1643 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1644 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1646 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1650 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1651 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1652 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1655 Python bindings changes
1656 -----------------------
1658 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1660 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1661 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1662 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1663 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1664 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1665 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1667 Ruby bindings changes
1668 ---------------------
1670 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1671 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1672 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1673 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1678 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1680 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1681 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1683 Reply formatting cleanup
1684 ------------------------
1686 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1687 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1689 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1690 ========================
1692 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1694 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1695 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1696 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1697 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1700 Improved Build system portability
1702 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1703 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1704 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1706 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1708 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1710 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1712 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1713 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1714 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1716 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1717 ========================
1719 Vim interface improvements
1720 --------------------------
1722 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1724 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1725 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1726 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1727 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1728 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1730 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1732 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1733 * fix compose temp file name
1735 Python Bindings changes
1736 -----------------------
1738 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1740 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1741 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1743 Build-System improvements
1744 -------------------------
1746 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1748 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1751 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1752 ==========================
1757 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1759 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1760 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1762 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1763 =======================
1765 New, general features
1766 ---------------------
1768 Folder-based searching
1770 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1771 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1772 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1776 For example, one might use things such as:
1782 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1783 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1785 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1786 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1787 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1788 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1790 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1791 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1792 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1795 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1796 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1798 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1800 Support for PGP/MIME
1802 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1803 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1804 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1806 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1808 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1809 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1811 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1812 notmuch will receive these tags.
1814 New command-line features
1815 -------------------------
1817 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1819 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1820 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1822 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1824 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1825 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1826 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1828 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1830 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1831 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1832 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1833 which parts a signature part applies).
1835 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1837 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1838 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1839 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1840 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1841 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1844 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1846 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1847 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1848 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1849 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1850 by translating it internally to the new call.
1852 Performance improvements
1853 ------------------------
1855 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1857 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1858 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1859 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1861 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1862 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1864 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1866 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1867 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1868 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1870 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1871 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1872 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1873 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1875 Faster initial indexing
1877 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1878 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1879 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1881 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1883 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1884 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1885 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1886 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1888 New emacs-interface features
1889 ----------------------------
1891 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1893 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1894 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1895 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1896 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1897 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1898 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1900 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1902 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1903 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1904 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1905 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1907 User-selectable From address
1909 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1910 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1911 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1912 will prompt for the from address to use.
1914 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1915 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1916 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1918 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1919 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1920 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1923 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1925 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1926 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1928 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1930 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1932 ----- Original Message -----
1934 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1935 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1936 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1937 citations work much like conventional citations.
1939 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1941 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1942 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1943 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1944 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1945 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1947 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1948 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1950 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1952 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1953 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1954 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1956 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1958 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1959 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1960 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1961 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1962 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1964 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1966 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1969 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1971 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1973 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1975 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1978 Vim interface improvements
1979 --------------------------
1981 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1983 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1984 * Implementing archive in show view
1985 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1986 * Add delete commands
1989 Bindings improvements
1990 ---------------------
1992 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1994 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1995 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1997 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1999 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2003 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2004 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2005 `list(Messages)` works now
2006 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2008 These allow, for example:
2010 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2012 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2014 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2020 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2022 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2025 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2027 New build-system features
2028 -------------------------
2030 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2032 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2033 the configure script from some other directory:
2040 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2042 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2043 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2044 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2045 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2046 manual invocation of configure.
2048 New test-suite feature
2049 ----------------------
2051 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2053 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2054 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2055 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2056 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2057 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2060 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2062 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2063 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2064 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2065 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2066 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2067 are updated to take advantage of this.
2069 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2071 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2072 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2073 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2074 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2080 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2082 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2083 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2084 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2086 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2088 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2090 to:user@elsewhere.com
2092 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2094 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2096 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2098 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2099 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2100 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2103 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2104 from the Received headers in some cases
2106 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2107 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2109 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2111 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2113 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2115 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2116 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2117 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2119 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2120 -------------------------
2122 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2124 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2125 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2126 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2128 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2130 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2131 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2132 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2135 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2137 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2138 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2139 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2140 fixed to avoid this bug.
2142 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2144 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2145 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2147 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2148 ========================
2150 New, general features
2151 ---------------------
2153 Maildir-flag synchronization
2155 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2156 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2165 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2167 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2168 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2169 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2170 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2172 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2173 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2174 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2175 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2178 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2180 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2181 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2182 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2184 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2185 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2187 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2188 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2190 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2191 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2192 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2194 New library features
2195 --------------------
2197 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2199 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2200 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2201 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2202 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2204 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2205 message with the new function:
2207 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2209 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2210 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2211 over all available filenames for a given message.
2213 New command-line features
2214 -------------------------
2216 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2218 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2219 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2220 access to the mail store itself.
2222 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2223 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2224 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2225 name of a script containing:
2227 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2229 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2230 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2236 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2238 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2240 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2242 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2243 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2244 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2245 now produces nothing).
2247 Emacs interface improvements
2248 ----------------------------
2250 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2252 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2254 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2256 Display current thread subject in a header line
2258 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2260 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2262 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2263 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2264 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2265 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2266 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2267 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2268 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2270 Vim interface improvements
2271 --------------------------
2273 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2275 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2276 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2282 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2284 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2285 ========================
2287 New command-line features
2288 -------------------------
2290 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2292 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2293 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2294 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2296 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2297 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2298 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2299 scripts. For example:
2301 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2302 <operations-on> "$file"
2305 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2307 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2308 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2309 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2310 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2311 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2312 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2314 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2316 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2317 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2318 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2319 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2321 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2323 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2324 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2325 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2326 default rather than Bcc.
2328 New library features
2329 --------------------
2331 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2333 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2334 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2339 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2341 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2342 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2343 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2344 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2345 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2346 notmuch customize interface.
2348 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2350 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2351 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2352 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2353 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2355 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2357 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2358 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2359 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2360 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2362 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2364 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2365 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2366 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2367 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2368 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2369 notmuch customize interface.
2371 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2373 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2374 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2375 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2376 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2377 notmuch customize interface.
2379 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2381 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2382 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2383 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2384 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2387 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2389 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2390 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2391 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2394 New build-system features
2395 -------------------------
2397 Various portability fixes have been applied
2399 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2400 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2401 more portable than ever before.
2403 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2405 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2406 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2407 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2409 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2410 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2411 automatically run ldconfig.
2413 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2414 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2415 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2417 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2418 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2419 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2420 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2422 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2424 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2425 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2426 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2427 used in the resulting Makefile.
2429 New test-suite features
2430 -----------------------
2432 New modularization of test suite
2434 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2435 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2436 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2437 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2438 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2439 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2440 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2441 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2443 New testing of emacs interface
2445 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2446 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2447 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2448 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2449 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2450 database via the FCC setting.
2455 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2457 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2458 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2459 persistent error of the form:
2461 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2463 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2464 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2466 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2468 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2469 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2470 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2472 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2474 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2475 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2476 parsing the notmuch results).
2478 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2480 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2483 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2484 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2485 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2490 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2492 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2493 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2494 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2495 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2496 the emacs interface.
2498 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2500 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2501 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2502 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2504 Python-binding fixes
2505 --------------------
2507 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2509 Debian-specific fixes
2510 ---------------------
2512 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2514 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2515 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2516 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2519 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2520 ==========================
2525 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2527 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2528 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2529 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2530 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2532 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2534 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2535 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2536 want notmuch to crash.
2541 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2543 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2544 directory does not exist
2549 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2551 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2552 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2554 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2555 ========================
2557 New command-line features
2558 -------------------------
2560 User-configurable tags for new messages
2562 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2563 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2564 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2565 to specify this value.
2567 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2569 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2570 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2571 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2573 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2575 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2576 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2578 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2580 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2581 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2582 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2583 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2584 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2587 Indication of author names that match a search
2589 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2590 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2591 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2592 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2593 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2594 messages in the thread are listed first.
2596 New: Python bindings
2597 --------------------
2599 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2600 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2601 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2602 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2604 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2605 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2606 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2609 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2610 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2611 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2613 Emacs interface improvements
2614 ----------------------------
2616 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2618 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2619 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2620 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2621 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2622 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2623 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2624 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2625 but without any of the disadvantages).
2627 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2628 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2629 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2632 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2633 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2634 instead running something like:
2636 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2638 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2639 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2640 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2643 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2645 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2646 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2647 tweaked by the user.
2649 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2650 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2651 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2654 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2655 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2656 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2659 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2661 This support currently relies on an external program,
2662 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2663 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2664 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2665 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2666 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2669 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2670 notmuch) is available via:
2672 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2674 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2675 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2676 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2678 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2680 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2681 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2682 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2683 making this automatic in a future release.
2685 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2687 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2688 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2689 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2690 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2691 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2692 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2695 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2697 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2698 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2699 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2701 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2703 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2704 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2705 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2707 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2708 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2709 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2710 other representation.
2712 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2713 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2716 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2718 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2719 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2720 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2722 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2723 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2724 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2726 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2728 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2729 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2730 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2731 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2732 to display the search result.
2734 More flexible handling of header visibility
2736 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2737 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2738 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2739 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2740 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2741 with the 'h' keybinding.
2743 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2744 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2745 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2747 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2749 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2751 Customizable formatting of search results
2753 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2754 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2755 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2757 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2759 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2761 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2766 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2768 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2769 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2770 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2771 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2777 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2779 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2780 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2782 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2784 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2785 accept are now all accepted.
2790 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2792 Better display of output from failed tests
2794 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2795 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2797 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2798 ========================
2800 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2801 detailed release notes this time!
2803 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2804 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2806 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2807 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2808 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2809 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2816 Better guessing of From: header
2818 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2819 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2820 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2821 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2822 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2825 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2827 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2828 guaranteed to match all messages.
2830 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2832 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2833 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2834 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2835 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2836 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2839 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2842 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2843 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2844 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2845 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2850 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2852 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2853 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2854 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2855 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2857 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2859 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2861 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2862 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2863 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2865 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2867 Previously, the user might see:
2869 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2873 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2875 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2876 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2877 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2878 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2880 Emacs client features
2881 ---------------------
2883 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2885 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2886 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2887 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2888 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2889 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2891 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2894 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2895 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2896 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2897 search with the '*' binding.
2899 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2901 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2902 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2905 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2907 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2908 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2909 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2911 Build-system features
2912 ---------------------
2914 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2916 Add support to configure for many standard options
2918 We include actual support for:
2920 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2922 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2924 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2925 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2927 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2928 separate "make install-emacs"
2930 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2932 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2933 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2934 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2936 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2939 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2940 ========================
2942 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2944 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2945 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2947 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2948 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2949 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2950 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2951 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2952 tags from messages in a thread.
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