1 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-xx-xx)
2 =========================
4 New build and testing features
5 ------------------------------
7 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
8 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
9 prerequisites is improved.
11 New command-line features
12 -------------------------
14 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
16 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
17 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
20 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
22 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
23 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
24 favour of using stdout.
26 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
27 ========================
32 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
34 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
35 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
36 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
37 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
38 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
45 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
46 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
48 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
52 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
53 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
54 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
57 Python bindings changes
58 -----------------------
60 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
62 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
63 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
64 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
65 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
66 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
67 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
72 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
73 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
74 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
75 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
80 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
82 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
83 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
85 Reply formatting cleanup
86 ------------------------
88 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
89 MIME parts are being suppressed.
91 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
92 ========================
94 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
96 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
97 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
98 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
99 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
102 Improved Build system portability
104 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
105 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
106 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
108 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
110 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
112 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
114 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
115 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
116 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
118 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
119 ========================
121 Vim interface improvements
122 --------------------------
124 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
126 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
127 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
128 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
129 * fix from list reformatting in search view
130 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
132 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
134 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
135 * fix compose temp file name
137 Python Bindings changes
138 -----------------------
140 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
142 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
143 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
145 Build-System improvments
146 ------------------------
148 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
150 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
153 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
154 ==========================
159 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
161 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
162 people running gcc 4.4.5.
164 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
165 =======================
166 New, general features
167 ---------------------
168 Folder-based searching
170 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
171 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
172 storage). The syntax is as follows:
176 For example, one might use things such as:
182 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
183 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
185 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
186 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
187 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
188 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
190 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
191 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
192 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
195 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
196 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
198 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
202 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
203 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
204 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
206 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
208 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
209 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
211 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
212 notmuch will receive these tags.
214 New command-line features
215 -------------------------
216 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
218 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
219 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
221 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
223 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
224 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
225 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
227 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
229 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
230 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
231 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
232 which parts a signature part applies).
234 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
236 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
237 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
238 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
239 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
240 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
243 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
245 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
246 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
247 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
248 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
249 by translating it internally to the new call.
251 Performance improvements
252 ------------------------
253 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
255 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
256 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
257 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
259 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
260 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
262 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
264 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
265 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
266 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
268 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
269 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
270 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
271 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
273 Faster initial indexing
275 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
276 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
277 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
279 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
281 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
282 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
283 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
284 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
286 New emacs-interface features
287 ----------------------------
289 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
291 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
292 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
293 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
294 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
295 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
296 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
298 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
300 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
301 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
302 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
303 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
305 User-selectable From address
307 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
308 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
309 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
310 will prompt for the from address to use.
312 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
313 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
314 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
316 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
317 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
318 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
321 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
323 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
324 its parent, the subject is not shown.
326 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
328 When a message contains a line looking something like:
330 ----- Original Message -----
332 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
333 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
334 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
335 citations work much like conventional citations.
337 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
339 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
340 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
341 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
342 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
343 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
345 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
346 Notmuch After Tag Hook
348 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
350 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
351 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
352 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
354 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
356 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
357 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
358 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
359 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
360 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
362 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
364 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
367 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
369 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
371 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
372 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
374 Vim interface improvements
375 --------------------------
376 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
378 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
379 * Implementing archive in show view
380 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
381 * Add delete commands
384 Bindings improvements
385 ---------------------
386 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
388 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
389 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
391 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
392 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
395 - Message().get_filenames(),
396 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
397 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
399 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
400 These allow, for example:
403 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
405 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
410 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
411 Use len(list(Messages())) or
412 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
414 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
416 New build-system features
417 -------------------------
418 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
420 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
421 the configure script from some other directory:
428 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
430 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
431 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
432 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
433 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
434 manual invocation of configure.
436 New test-suite feature
437 ----------------------
438 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
440 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
441 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
442 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
443 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
444 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
447 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
449 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
450 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
451 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
452 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
453 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
454 are updated to take advantage of this.
456 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
458 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
459 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
460 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
461 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
466 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
468 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
469 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
470 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
472 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
474 This fixed a bug where a search for:
476 to:user@elsewhere.com
478 would incorrectly match a message sent:
480 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
482 Fix --output=json when search has no results
484 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
485 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
486 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
489 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
490 from the Received headers in some cases.
492 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
493 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
495 Cleaned up several memory leaks
497 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
499 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
501 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
502 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
503 interface and were never intended to be exported.
505 Emacs-interface bug fixes
506 -------------------------
507 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
509 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
510 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
511 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
513 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
515 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
516 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
517 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
520 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
522 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
523 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
524 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
525 fixed to avoid this bug.
527 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
529 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
530 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
532 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
533 ========================
534 New, general features
535 ---------------------
536 Maildir-flag synchronization
538 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
539 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
548 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
550 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
551 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
552 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
553 renamed with an 'R' flag).
555 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
556 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
557 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
558 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
561 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
563 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
564 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
565 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
567 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
568 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
570 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
571 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
573 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
574 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
575 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
579 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
581 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
582 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
583 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
584 notmuch_message_get_filename).
586 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
587 message with the new function:
589 notmuch_message_get_filenames
591 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
592 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
593 all available filenames for a given message.
595 New command-line features
596 -------------------------
597 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
599 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
600 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
601 access to the mail store itself.
603 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
604 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
605 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
606 name of a script containing:
608 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
610 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
611 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
616 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
618 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
620 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
622 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
623 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
624 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
625 now produces nothing).
627 Emacs interface improvements
628 ----------------------------
629 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
631 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
633 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
635 Display current thread subject in a header line.
637 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
639 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
641 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
642 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
643 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
644 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
645 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
646 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
647 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
649 Vim interface improvements
650 --------------------------
651 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
653 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
654 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
659 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
661 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
662 ========================
663 New command-line features
664 -------------------------
665 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
667 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
668 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
669 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
671 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
672 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
673 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
674 scripts. For example:
676 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
677 <operations-on> "$file"
680 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
682 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
683 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
684 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
685 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
686 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
687 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
689 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
691 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
692 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
693 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
694 custom items stored in the configuration file.
696 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
698 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
699 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
700 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
701 default rather than Bcc.
705 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
707 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
708 notmuch_query_t object.
712 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
714 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
715 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
716 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
717 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
718 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
719 notmuch customize interface.
721 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
723 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
724 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
725 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
726 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
728 Optional support for detecting inline patches
730 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
731 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
732 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
733 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
735 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
737 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
738 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
739 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
740 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
741 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
742 notmuch customize interface.
744 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
746 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
747 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
748 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
749 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
750 notmuch customize interface.
752 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
754 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
755 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
756 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
757 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
760 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
762 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
763 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
764 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
767 New build-system features
768 -------------------------
769 Various portability fixes have been applied
771 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
772 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
773 more portable than ever before.
775 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
777 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
778 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
779 after installing. This support takes two forms:
781 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
782 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
783 automatically run ldconfig.
785 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
786 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
787 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
789 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
790 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
791 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
792 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
794 Check compiler/linker options before using them
796 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
797 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
798 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
799 used in the resulting Makefile.
801 New test-suite features
802 -----------------------
803 New modularization of test suite.
805 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
806 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
807 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
808 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
809 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
810 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
811 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
812 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
814 New testing of emacs interface.
816 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
817 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
818 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
819 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
820 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
821 database via the FCC setting.
825 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
827 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
828 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
829 persistent error of the form:
831 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
833 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
834 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
836 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
838 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
839 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
840 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
842 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
844 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
845 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
846 parsing the notmuch results).
848 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
850 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
852 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
853 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
854 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
858 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
860 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
861 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
862 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
863 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
866 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
868 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
869 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
870 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
874 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
876 Debian-specific fixes
877 ---------------------
878 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
880 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
881 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
882 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
885 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
886 ==========================
889 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
891 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
892 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
893 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
894 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
896 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
898 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
899 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
900 want notmuch to crash.
904 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
906 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
907 directory does not exist.
911 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
913 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
914 final linking of notmuch would fail.
916 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
917 ========================
918 New command-line features
919 -------------------------
920 User-configurable tags for new messages
922 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
923 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
924 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
925 to specify this value.
927 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
929 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
930 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
931 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
933 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
935 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
936 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
938 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
940 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
941 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
942 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
943 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
944 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
947 Indication of author names that match a search
949 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
950 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
951 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
952 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
953 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
954 messages in the thread are listed first.
958 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
959 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
960 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
961 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
963 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
964 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
965 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
968 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
969 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
970 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
972 Emacs interface improvements
973 ----------------------------
974 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
976 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
977 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
978 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
979 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
980 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
981 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
982 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
983 but without any of the disadvantages).
985 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
986 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
987 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
990 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
991 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
992 recommend instead running something like:
994 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
996 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
997 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
998 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1001 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1003 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1004 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1005 tweaked by the user.
1007 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1008 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1009 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1012 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1013 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1014 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1017 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1019 This support currently relies on an external program,
1020 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1021 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1022 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1023 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1024 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1027 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1028 notmuch) is available via:
1030 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1032 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1033 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1034 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1036 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1038 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1039 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1040 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1041 making this automatic in a future release.
1043 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1045 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1046 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1047 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1048 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1049 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1050 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1053 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1055 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1056 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1057 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1059 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1061 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1062 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1063 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1065 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1066 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1067 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1068 other representation.
1070 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1071 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1074 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1076 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1077 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1078 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1080 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1081 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1082 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1084 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1086 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1087 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1088 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1089 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1090 to display the search result.
1092 More flexible handling of header visibility
1094 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1095 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1096 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1097 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1098 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1099 with the 'h' keybinding.
1101 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1102 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1103 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1105 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1107 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1109 Customizable formatting of search results
1111 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1112 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1113 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1115 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1117 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1119 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1123 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1125 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1126 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1127 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1128 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1133 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1135 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1136 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1138 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1140 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1141 accept are now all accepted.
1145 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1147 Better display of output from failed tests.
1149 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1150 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1152 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1153 ========================
1154 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1155 detailed release notes this time!
1157 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1158 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1160 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1161 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1162 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1163 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1169 Better guessing of From: header.
1171 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1172 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1173 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1174 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1175 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1178 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1180 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1181 guaranteed to match all messages.
1183 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1185 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1186 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1187 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1188 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1189 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1192 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1195 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1196 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1197 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1198 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1202 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1204 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1205 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1206 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1207 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1209 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1211 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1213 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1214 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1215 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1217 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1219 Previously, the user might see:
1221 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1225 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1227 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1228 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1229 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1230 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1232 Emacs client features
1233 ---------------------
1234 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1236 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1237 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1238 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1239 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1240 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1242 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1245 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1246 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1247 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1248 search with the '*' binding.
1250 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1252 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1253 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1256 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1258 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1259 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1260 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1262 Build-system features
1263 ---------------------
1264 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1266 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1268 We include actual support for:
1270 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1272 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1274 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1275 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1277 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1278 separate "make install-emacs".
1280 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1282 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1283 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1284 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1286 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1289 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1290 ========================
1291 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1293 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1294 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1296 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1297 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1298 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1299 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1300 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1301 tags from messages in a thread.