1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2 =========================
7 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
9 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
10 folder and notmuch index.
12 `notmuch count --batch` option
14 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
15 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
17 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
19 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
20 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
21 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
24 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
26 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
27 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
28 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
29 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
30 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
33 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
35 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
36 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
38 Top level option to specify configuration file
40 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
41 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
43 Bash command-line completion
45 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
46 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
47 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
48 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
49 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
50 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
51 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
52 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
53 bash-completion package.
55 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
60 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
62 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
63 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
64 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
65 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
66 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
67 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
68 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
69 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
71 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
73 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
74 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
75 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
77 Key bindings for next/previous thread
79 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
80 previous thread in the search results.
82 Better handling of errors in search buffers
84 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
85 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
87 Faster search and show
89 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
90 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
91 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
92 threads should show faster.
96 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
97 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
98 in question was now removed from this release.
103 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
104 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
109 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
111 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
112 ===========================
117 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
119 Internal test framework changes
120 -------------------------------
122 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
125 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
126 ===========================
128 Internal test framework changes
129 -------------------------------
131 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
132 build failures in non-interactive environments.
134 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
135 =========================
140 Date range search support
142 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
143 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
144 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
145 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
146 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
149 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
151 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
152 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
153 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
154 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
155 but may be removed in a future release.
157 Command-Line Interface
158 ----------------------
160 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
162 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
163 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
165 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
167 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
168 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
169 officially deprecated.
171 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
173 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
174 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
175 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
177 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
179 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
180 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
183 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
184 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
187 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
189 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
190 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
191 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
193 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
195 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
196 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
197 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
199 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
201 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
202 output separated by null characters rather than newline
203 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
204 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
209 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
211 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
212 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
213 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
214 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
216 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
218 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
219 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
220 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
221 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
222 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
223 the behavior of this, see
224 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
225 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
227 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
228 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
229 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
231 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
233 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
234 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
237 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
239 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
240 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
241 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
242 simply displayed in place of the message.
244 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
246 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
247 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
249 Improved text/calendar content handling
251 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
252 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
253 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
254 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
256 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
258 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
259 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
260 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
261 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
263 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
265 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
266 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
267 for HTML email containing images.
269 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
271 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
273 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
275 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
278 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
280 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
281 the point where it was.
283 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
285 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
286 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
287 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
288 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
289 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
291 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
293 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
294 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
295 thread instead of the message id.
297 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
298 -----------------------------
300 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
301 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
302 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
303 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
304 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
305 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
306 further details and installation.
311 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
313 Internal test framework changes
314 -------------------------------
316 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
318 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
319 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
320 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
321 can result in buggy behavior.
323 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
324 =========================
329 Maildir tag synchronization
331 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
332 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
333 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
334 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
335 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
336 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
339 Command-Line Interface
340 ----------------------
342 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
343 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
344 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
345 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
346 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
352 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
354 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
356 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
357 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
358 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
360 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
362 It is now possible to embed newlines in
363 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
366 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
368 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
369 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
370 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
371 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
372 inside the result or message.
374 Search now uses the JSON format internally
376 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
377 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
379 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
380 user-specified formatting
382 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
383 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
384 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
385 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
386 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
388 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
389 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
391 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
392 ===========================
397 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
398 compilation error for this contrib package.
400 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
401 ===========================
406 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
408 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
409 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
410 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
411 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
413 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
414 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
417 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
418 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
419 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
420 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
423 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
425 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
428 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
429 =========================
431 Command-Line Interface
432 ----------------------
436 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
437 for a reply message and full information about the original message
438 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
439 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
441 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
442 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
443 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
444 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
448 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
449 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
451 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
452 tag in your query, for example:
454 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
456 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
457 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
459 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
460 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
462 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
464 Raw show format changes
466 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
467 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
468 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
469 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
470 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
471 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
472 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
473 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
475 Listing configuration items
477 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
483 Changes to tagging interface
485 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
486 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
487 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
488 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
489 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
490 for more information.
492 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
493 may need to update in custom configurations.
495 Reply improvement using the JSON format
497 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
498 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
499 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
500 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
503 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
504 -----------------------------
506 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
507 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
508 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
509 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
510 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
511 contrib/ from now on.
516 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
517 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
519 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
520 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
522 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
523 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
524 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
526 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
527 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
529 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
530 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
531 returning the new database object or directory object.
538 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
539 compatible with go 1.
541 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
542 =========================
544 Command-Line Interface
545 ----------------------
549 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
550 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
551 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
552 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
554 Mail store folder/file ignore
556 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
557 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
558 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
560 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
561 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
563 Unified help and manual pages
565 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
566 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
569 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
571 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
572 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
580 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
581 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
582 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
583 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
585 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
587 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
588 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
590 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
593 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
594 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
595 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
597 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
599 should be changed to:
601 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
603 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
605 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
606 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
608 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
610 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
611 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
612 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
613 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
614 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
615 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
619 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
620 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
621 of Mailing List Archives.
623 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
625 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
626 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
629 Show view archiving key binding changes
631 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
632 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
633 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
634 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
635 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
638 Support text/calendar MIME type
640 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
643 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
645 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
646 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
647 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
648 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
650 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
652 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
653 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
654 messages blue by default in the search view.
658 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
659 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
666 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
669 Python bindings changes
670 -----------------------
672 Python 3.2 compatibility
674 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
676 Added missing unicode conversions
678 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
679 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
680 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
685 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
687 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
688 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
689 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
690 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
691 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
693 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
694 ===========================
699 Fix error handling in python bindings
701 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
702 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
703 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
704 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
706 Quote MML tags in replies
708 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
709 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
710 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
711 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
712 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
713 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
714 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
715 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
717 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
718 =========================
720 Command-Line Interface
721 ----------------------
725 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
726 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
727 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
728 importing new messages into the database.
730 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
732 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
733 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
734 sometimes. This is now fixed.
739 Automatic tag query optimization
741 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
742 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
743 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
745 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
747 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
748 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
749 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
754 Reduction of memory leaks
756 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
757 and fixed in this release.
764 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
765 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
766 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
769 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
771 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
772 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
773 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
776 Improvements in saved search management
778 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
779 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
780 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
782 Hooks for notmuch-hello
784 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
785 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
786 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
788 New face for crypto parts headers
790 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
791 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
792 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
795 Use space as default thousands separator
797 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
798 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
799 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
801 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
804 New function notmuch-show-advance
806 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
807 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
808 be bound to SPC with:
810 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
812 Various performance improvements
817 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
818 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
821 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
822 ===========================
827 Fix crash in python bindings
829 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
830 for some, but not all users.
832 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
833 ===========================
838 Fix `--help` argument
840 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
841 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
842 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
844 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
845 =========================
847 New build and testing features
848 ------------------------------
850 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
851 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
852 prerequisites is improved.
854 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
856 New command-line features
857 -------------------------
859 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
861 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
862 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
865 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
867 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
868 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
869 favour of using stdout.
871 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
873 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
874 limit the number of results shown.
876 Add `notmuch count --output` option
878 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
879 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
882 New emacs UI features
883 ---------------------
885 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
887 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
888 starting with "tag:".
890 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
892 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
893 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
895 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
897 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
899 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
901 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
902 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
907 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
909 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
911 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
912 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
913 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
914 requires a database rebuild:
916 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
917 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
919 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
921 New collection of add-on tools
922 ------------------------------
924 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
925 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
926 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
929 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
931 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
932 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
933 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
935 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
936 ========================
938 New, general features
939 ---------------------
941 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
943 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
944 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
945 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
946 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
947 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
954 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
955 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
957 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
961 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
962 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
963 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
966 Python bindings changes
967 -----------------------
969 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
971 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
972 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
973 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
974 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
975 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
976 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
978 Ruby bindings changes
979 ---------------------
981 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
982 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
983 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
984 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
989 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
991 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
992 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
994 Reply formatting cleanup
995 ------------------------
997 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
998 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1000 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1001 ========================
1003 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1005 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1006 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1007 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1008 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1011 Improved Build system portability
1013 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1014 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1015 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1017 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1019 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1021 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1023 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1024 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1025 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1027 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1028 ========================
1030 Vim interface improvements
1031 --------------------------
1033 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1035 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1036 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1037 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1038 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1039 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1041 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1043 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1044 * fix compose temp file name
1046 Python Bindings changes
1047 -----------------------
1049 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1051 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1052 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1054 Build-System improvements
1055 -------------------------
1057 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1059 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1062 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1063 ==========================
1068 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1070 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1071 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1073 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1074 =======================
1076 New, general features
1077 ---------------------
1079 Folder-based searching
1081 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1082 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1083 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1087 For example, one might use things such as:
1093 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1094 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1096 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1097 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1098 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1099 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1101 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1102 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1103 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1106 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1107 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1109 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1111 Support for PGP/MIME
1113 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1114 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1115 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1117 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1119 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1120 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1122 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1123 notmuch will receive these tags.
1125 New command-line features
1126 -------------------------
1128 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1130 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1131 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1133 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1135 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1136 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1137 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1139 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1141 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1142 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1143 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1144 which parts a signature part applies).
1146 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1148 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1149 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1150 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1151 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1152 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1155 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1157 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1158 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1159 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1160 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1161 by translating it internally to the new call.
1163 Performance improvements
1164 ------------------------
1166 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1168 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1169 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1170 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1172 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1173 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1175 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1177 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1178 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1179 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1181 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1182 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1183 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1184 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1186 Faster initial indexing
1188 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1189 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1190 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1192 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1194 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1195 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1196 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1197 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1199 New emacs-interface features
1200 ----------------------------
1202 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1204 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1205 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1206 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1207 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1208 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1209 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1211 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1213 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1214 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1215 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1216 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1218 User-selectable From address
1220 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1221 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1222 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1223 will prompt for the from address to use.
1225 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1226 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1227 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1229 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1230 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1231 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1234 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1236 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1237 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1239 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1241 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1243 ----- Original Message -----
1245 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1246 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1247 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1248 citations work much like conventional citations.
1250 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1252 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1253 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1254 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1255 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1256 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1258 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1259 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1261 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1263 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1264 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1265 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1267 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1269 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1270 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1271 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1272 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1273 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1275 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1277 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1280 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1282 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1284 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1286 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1289 Vim interface improvements
1290 --------------------------
1292 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1294 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1295 * Implementing archive in show view
1296 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1297 * Add delete commands
1300 Bindings improvements
1301 ---------------------
1303 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1305 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1306 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1308 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1310 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1314 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1315 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1316 `list(Messages)` works now
1317 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1319 These allow, for example:
1321 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1323 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1325 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1331 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1333 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1336 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1338 New build-system features
1339 -------------------------
1341 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1343 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1344 the configure script from some other directory:
1351 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1353 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1354 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1355 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1356 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1357 manual invocation of configure.
1359 New test-suite feature
1360 ----------------------
1362 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1364 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1365 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1366 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1367 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1368 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1371 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1373 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1374 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1375 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1376 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1377 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1378 are updated to take advantage of this.
1380 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1382 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1383 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1384 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1385 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1391 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1393 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1394 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1395 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1397 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1399 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1401 to:user@elsewhere.com
1403 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1405 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1407 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1409 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1410 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1411 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1414 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1415 from the Received headers in some cases
1417 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1418 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1420 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1422 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1424 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1426 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1427 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1428 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1430 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1431 -------------------------
1433 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1435 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1436 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1437 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1439 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1441 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1442 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1443 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1446 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1448 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1449 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1450 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1451 fixed to avoid this bug.
1453 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1455 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1456 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1458 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1459 ========================
1461 New, general features
1462 ---------------------
1464 Maildir-flag synchronization
1466 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1467 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1476 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1478 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1479 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1480 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1481 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1483 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1484 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1485 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1486 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1489 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1491 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1492 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1493 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1495 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1496 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1498 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1499 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1501 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1502 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1503 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1505 New library features
1506 --------------------
1508 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1510 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1511 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1512 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1513 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1515 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1516 message with the new function:
1518 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1520 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1521 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1522 over all available filenames for a given message.
1524 New command-line features
1525 -------------------------
1527 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1529 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1530 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1531 access to the mail store itself.
1533 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1534 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1535 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1536 name of a script containing:
1538 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1540 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1541 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1547 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1549 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1551 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1553 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1554 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1555 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1556 now produces nothing).
1558 Emacs interface improvements
1559 ----------------------------
1561 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1563 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1565 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1567 Display current thread subject in a header line
1569 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1571 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1573 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1574 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1575 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1576 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1577 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1578 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1579 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1581 Vim interface improvements
1582 --------------------------
1584 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1586 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1587 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1593 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1595 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1596 ========================
1598 New command-line features
1599 -------------------------
1601 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1603 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1604 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1605 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1607 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1608 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1609 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1610 scripts. For example:
1612 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1613 <operations-on> "$file"
1616 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1618 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1619 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1620 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1621 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1622 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1623 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1625 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1627 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1628 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1629 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1630 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1632 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1634 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1635 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1636 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1637 default rather than Bcc.
1639 New library features
1640 --------------------
1642 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1644 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1645 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1650 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1652 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1653 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1654 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1655 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1656 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1657 notmuch customize interface.
1659 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1661 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1662 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1663 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1664 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1666 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1668 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1669 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1670 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1671 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1673 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1675 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1676 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1677 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1678 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1679 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1680 notmuch customize interface.
1682 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1684 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1685 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1686 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1687 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1688 notmuch customize interface.
1690 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1692 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1693 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1694 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1695 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1698 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1700 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1701 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1702 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1705 New build-system features
1706 -------------------------
1708 Various portability fixes have been applied
1710 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1711 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1712 more portable than ever before.
1714 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1716 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1717 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1718 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1720 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1721 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1722 automatically run ldconfig.
1724 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1725 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1726 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1728 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1729 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1730 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1731 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1733 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1735 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1736 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1737 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1738 used in the resulting Makefile.
1740 New test-suite features
1741 -----------------------
1743 New modularization of test suite
1745 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1746 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1747 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1748 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1749 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1750 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1751 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1752 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1754 New testing of emacs interface
1756 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1757 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1758 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1759 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1760 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1761 database via the FCC setting.
1766 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1768 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1769 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1770 persistent error of the form:
1772 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1774 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1775 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1777 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1779 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1780 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1781 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1783 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1785 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1786 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1787 parsing the notmuch results).
1789 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1791 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1794 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1795 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1796 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1801 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1803 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1804 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1805 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1806 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1807 the emacs interface.
1809 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1811 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1812 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1813 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1815 Python-binding fixes
1816 --------------------
1818 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1820 Debian-specific fixes
1821 ---------------------
1823 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1825 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1826 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1827 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1830 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1831 ==========================
1836 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1838 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1839 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1840 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1841 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1843 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1845 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1846 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1847 want notmuch to crash.
1852 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1854 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1855 directory does not exist
1860 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1862 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1863 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1865 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1866 ========================
1868 New command-line features
1869 -------------------------
1871 User-configurable tags for new messages
1873 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1874 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1875 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1876 to specify this value.
1878 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1880 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1881 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1882 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1884 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1886 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1887 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1889 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1891 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1892 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1893 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1894 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1895 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1898 Indication of author names that match a search
1900 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1901 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1902 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1903 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1904 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1905 messages in the thread are listed first.
1907 New: Python bindings
1908 --------------------
1910 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1911 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1912 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1913 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1915 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1916 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1917 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1920 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1921 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1922 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1924 Emacs interface improvements
1925 ----------------------------
1927 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1929 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1930 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1931 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1932 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1933 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1934 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1935 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1936 but without any of the disadvantages).
1938 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1939 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1940 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1943 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1944 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1945 instead running something like:
1947 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1949 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1950 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1951 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1954 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1956 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1957 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1958 tweaked by the user.
1960 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1961 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1962 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1965 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1966 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1967 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1970 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1972 This support currently relies on an external program,
1973 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1974 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1975 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1976 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1977 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1980 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1981 notmuch) is available via:
1983 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1985 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1986 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1987 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1989 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1991 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1992 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1993 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1994 making this automatic in a future release.
1996 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1998 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1999 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2000 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2001 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2002 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2003 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2006 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2008 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2009 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2010 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2012 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2014 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2015 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2016 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2018 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2019 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2020 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2021 other representation.
2023 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2024 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2027 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2029 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2030 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2031 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2033 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2034 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2035 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2037 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2039 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2040 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2041 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2042 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2043 to display the search result.
2045 More flexible handling of header visibility
2047 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2048 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2049 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2050 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2051 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2052 with the 'h' keybinding.
2054 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2055 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2056 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2058 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2060 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2062 Customizable formatting of search results
2064 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2065 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2066 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2068 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2070 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2072 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2077 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2079 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2080 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2081 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2082 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2088 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2090 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2091 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2093 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2095 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2096 accept are now all accepted.
2101 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2103 Better display of output from failed tests
2105 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2106 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2108 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2109 ========================
2111 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2112 detailed release notes this time!
2114 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2115 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2117 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2118 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2119 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2120 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2127 Better guessing of From: header
2129 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2130 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2131 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2132 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2133 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2136 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2138 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2139 guaranteed to match all messages.
2141 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2143 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2144 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2145 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2146 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2147 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2150 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2153 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2154 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2155 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2156 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2161 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2163 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2164 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2165 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2166 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2168 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2170 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2172 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2173 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2174 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2176 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2178 Previously, the user might see:
2180 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2184 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2186 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2187 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2188 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2189 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2191 Emacs client features
2192 ---------------------
2194 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2196 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2197 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2198 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2199 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2200 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2202 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2205 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2206 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2207 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2208 search with the '*' binding.
2210 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2212 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2213 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2216 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2218 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2219 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2220 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2222 Build-system features
2223 ---------------------
2225 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2227 Add support to configure for many standard options
2229 We include actual support for:
2231 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2233 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2235 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2236 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2238 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2239 separate "make install-emacs"
2241 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2243 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2244 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2245 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2247 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2250 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2251 ========================
2253 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2255 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2256 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2258 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2259 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2260 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2261 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2262 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2263 tags from messages in a thread.
2270 indent-tabs-mode: nil