1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
9 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
10 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
11 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
14 Expanded default saved search settings
16 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
17 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
19 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
21 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
22 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
23 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
28 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
29 notmuch_database_destroy
34 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
35 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
36 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
37 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
38 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
39 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
44 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
45 from the config file. Use something like:
49 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
50 "footer": "</body></html>",
59 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
64 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
65 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
66 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
68 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
69 ===========================
74 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
76 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
78 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
80 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
81 structure for signatures changed slightly.
83 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
85 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
88 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
89 ===========================
91 This is a bug fix and portability release.
96 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
98 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
100 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
102 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
104 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
110 Use --quick when starting emacs
112 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
114 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
116 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
118 Command-Line Interface
119 ----------------------
121 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
122 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
127 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
129 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
130 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
132 Fix for phrase indexing
134 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
135 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
136 will affect only newly indexed messages.
141 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
143 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
144 unintentionally removed.
146 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
147 =========================
152 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
153 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
154 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
155 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
156 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
157 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
158 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
159 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
160 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
166 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
168 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
169 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
170 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
171 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
172 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
173 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
174 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
175 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
177 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
179 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
180 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
181 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
182 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
185 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
187 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
188 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
189 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
190 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
191 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
192 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
193 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
198 Notmuch database upgrade
200 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
201 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
202 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
203 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
204 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
205 released version of Notmuch before now.
207 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
209 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
210 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
211 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
212 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
214 Message header parsing changes
216 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
217 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
218 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
219 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
220 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
221 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
223 Command-Line Interface
224 ----------------------
226 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
228 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
230 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
232 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
234 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
236 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
237 user does not want it.
239 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
241 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
242 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
243 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
244 support formatted output.
246 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
248 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
249 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
250 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
258 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
259 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
260 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
261 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
262 `~/.emacs` with these.
264 Changed format for saved searches
266 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
267 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
268 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
269 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
272 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
273 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
274 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
275 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
277 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
278 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
279 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
281 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
282 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
283 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
284 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
285 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
287 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
289 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
290 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
291 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
293 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
295 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
296 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
297 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
298 message had been unread).
300 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
301 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
302 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
303 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
305 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
306 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
307 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
309 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
310 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
311 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
312 to tags already present.
316 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
317 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
318 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
319 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
320 these differ from each other.
321 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
323 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
325 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
326 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
327 for these Emacs versions.
329 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
331 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
332 newlines before calling notmuch count.
334 Bug fixes for sender identities
336 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
337 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
338 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
340 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
342 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
343 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
344 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
345 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
347 Reply pushes mark before signature
349 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
350 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
351 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
353 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
355 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
356 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
362 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
363 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
365 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
366 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
367 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
368 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
370 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
371 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
372 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
373 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
374 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
376 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
378 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
379 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
381 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
382 =========================
384 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
385 ---------------------------------------
387 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
388 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
389 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
390 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
391 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
392 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
393 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
397 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
398 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
400 Command-Line Interface
401 ----------------------
403 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
405 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
406 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
407 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
408 print for each message.
410 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
411 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
412 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
413 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
415 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
417 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
418 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
419 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
421 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
423 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
424 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
425 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
426 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
428 `notmuch compact` command
430 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
431 functionality through a more convenient interface than
432 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
433 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
434 move the compacted database into place.
439 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
441 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
442 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
443 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
444 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
445 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
446 and multiple threads.
450 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
452 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
453 search, show and tree mode itself)
455 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
458 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
459 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
461 Customising `notmuch-tree`
463 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
464 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
465 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
466 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
467 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
468 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
469 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
471 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
473 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
474 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
475 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
476 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
477 thread when the search was performed.
479 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
481 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
482 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
483 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
485 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
487 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
488 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
491 Built-in help improvements
493 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
494 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
495 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
497 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
499 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
500 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
501 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
503 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
505 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
506 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
508 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
510 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
511 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
512 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
513 to move some of them to the common keymap.
515 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
517 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
518 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
519 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
520 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
522 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
524 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
525 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
526 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
528 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
530 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
531 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
532 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
534 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
536 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
537 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
538 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
539 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
540 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
542 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
544 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
545 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
546 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
547 the body part of the message.
552 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
553 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
554 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
556 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
557 =========================
559 Command-Line Interface
560 ----------------------
562 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
564 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
565 folder and notmuch index.
567 `notmuch count --batch` option
569 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
570 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
572 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
574 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
575 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
576 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
579 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
581 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
582 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
583 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
584 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
585 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
588 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
590 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
591 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
593 Top level option to specify configuration file
595 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
596 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
598 Bash command-line completion
600 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
601 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
602 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
603 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
604 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
605 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
606 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
607 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
608 bash-completion package.
610 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
615 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
617 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
618 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
619 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
620 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
621 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
622 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
623 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
624 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
626 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
628 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
629 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
630 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
632 Key bindings for next/previous thread
634 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
635 previous thread in the search results.
637 Better handling of errors in search buffers
639 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
640 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
642 Faster search and show
644 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
645 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
646 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
647 threads should show faster.
651 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
652 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
653 in question was now removed from this release.
658 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
659 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
664 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
666 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
667 ===========================
672 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
674 Internal test framework changes
675 -------------------------------
677 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
680 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
681 ===========================
683 Internal test framework changes
684 -------------------------------
686 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
687 build failures in non-interactive environments.
689 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
690 =========================
695 Date range search support
697 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
698 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
699 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
700 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
701 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
704 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
706 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
707 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
708 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
709 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
710 but may be removed in a future release.
712 Command-Line Interface
713 ----------------------
715 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
717 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
718 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
720 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
722 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
723 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
724 officially deprecated.
726 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
728 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
729 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
730 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
732 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
734 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
735 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
738 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
739 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
742 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
744 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
745 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
746 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
748 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
750 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
751 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
752 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
754 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
756 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
757 output separated by null characters rather than newline
758 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
759 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
764 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
766 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
767 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
768 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
769 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
771 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
773 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
774 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
775 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
776 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
777 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
778 the behavior of this, see
779 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
780 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
782 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
783 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
784 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
786 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
788 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
789 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
792 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
794 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
795 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
796 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
797 simply displayed in place of the message.
799 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
801 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
802 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
804 Improved text/calendar content handling
806 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
807 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
808 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
809 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
811 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
813 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
814 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
815 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
816 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
818 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
820 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
821 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
822 for HTML email containing images.
824 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
826 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
828 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
830 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
833 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
835 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
836 the point where it was.
838 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
840 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
841 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
842 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
843 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
844 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
846 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
848 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
849 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
850 thread instead of the message id.
852 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
853 -----------------------------
855 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
856 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
857 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
858 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
859 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
860 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
861 further details and installation.
866 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
868 Internal test framework changes
869 -------------------------------
871 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
873 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
874 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
875 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
876 can result in buggy behavior.
878 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
879 =========================
884 Maildir tag synchronization
886 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
887 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
888 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
889 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
890 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
891 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
894 Command-Line Interface
895 ----------------------
897 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
898 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
899 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
900 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
901 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
907 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
909 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
911 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
912 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
913 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
915 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
917 It is now possible to embed newlines in
918 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
921 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
923 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
924 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
925 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
926 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
927 inside the result or message.
929 Search now uses the JSON format internally
931 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
932 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
934 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
935 user-specified formatting
937 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
938 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
939 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
940 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
941 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
943 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
944 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
946 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
947 ===========================
952 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
953 compilation error for this contrib package.
955 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
956 ===========================
961 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
963 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
964 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
965 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
966 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
968 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
969 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
972 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
973 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
974 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
975 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
978 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
980 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
983 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
984 =========================
986 Command-Line Interface
987 ----------------------
991 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
992 for a reply message and full information about the original message
993 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
994 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
996 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
997 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
998 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
999 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1003 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1004 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1006 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1007 tag in your query, for example:
1009 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1011 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1012 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1014 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1015 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1017 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1019 Raw show format changes
1021 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1022 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1023 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1024 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1025 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1026 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1027 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1028 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1030 Listing configuration items
1032 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1038 Changes to tagging interface
1040 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1041 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1042 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1043 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1044 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1045 for more information.
1047 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1048 may need to update in custom configurations.
1050 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1052 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1053 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1054 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1055 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1058 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1059 -----------------------------
1061 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1062 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1063 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1064 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1065 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1066 contrib/ from now on.
1071 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1072 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1074 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1075 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1077 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1078 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1079 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1081 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1082 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1084 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1085 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1086 returning the new database object or directory object.
1093 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1094 compatible with go 1.
1096 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1097 =========================
1099 Command-Line Interface
1100 ----------------------
1104 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1105 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1106 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1107 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1109 Mail store folder/file ignore
1111 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1112 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1113 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1115 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1116 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1118 Unified help and manual pages
1120 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1121 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1124 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1126 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1127 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1135 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1136 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1137 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1138 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1140 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1142 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1143 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1145 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1148 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1149 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1150 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1152 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1154 should be changed to:
1156 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1158 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1160 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1161 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1163 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1165 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1166 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1167 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1168 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1169 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1170 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1174 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1175 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1176 of Mailing List Archives.
1178 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1180 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1181 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1184 Show view archiving key binding changes
1186 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1187 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1188 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1189 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1190 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1193 Support text/calendar MIME type
1195 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1198 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1200 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1201 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1202 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1203 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1205 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1207 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1208 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1209 messages blue by default in the search view.
1213 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1214 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1221 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1224 Python bindings changes
1225 -----------------------
1227 Python 3.2 compatibility
1229 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1231 Added missing unicode conversions
1233 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1234 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1235 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1240 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1242 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1243 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1244 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1245 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1246 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1248 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1249 ===========================
1254 Fix error handling in python bindings
1256 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1257 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1258 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1259 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1261 Quote MML tags in replies
1263 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1264 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1265 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1266 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1267 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1268 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1269 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1270 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1272 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1273 =========================
1275 Command-Line Interface
1276 ----------------------
1280 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1281 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1282 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1283 importing new messages into the database.
1285 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1287 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1288 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1289 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1294 Automatic tag query optimization
1296 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1297 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1298 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1300 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1302 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1303 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1304 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1309 Reduction of memory leaks
1311 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1312 and fixed in this release.
1319 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1320 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1321 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1324 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1326 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1327 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1328 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1331 Improvements in saved search management
1333 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1334 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1335 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1337 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1339 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1340 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1341 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1343 New face for crypto parts headers
1345 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1346 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1347 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1350 Use space as default thousands separator
1352 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1353 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1354 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1356 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1357 buttonized id: links
1359 New function notmuch-show-advance
1361 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1362 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1363 be bound to SPC with:
1365 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1367 Various performance improvements
1372 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1373 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1376 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1377 ===========================
1382 Fix crash in python bindings
1384 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1385 for some, but not all users.
1387 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1388 ===========================
1393 Fix `--help` argument
1395 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1396 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1397 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1399 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1400 =========================
1402 New build and testing features
1403 ------------------------------
1405 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1406 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1407 prerequisites is improved.
1409 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1411 New command-line features
1412 -------------------------
1414 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1416 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1417 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1420 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1422 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1423 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1424 favour of using stdout.
1426 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1428 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1429 limit the number of results shown.
1431 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1433 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1434 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1437 New emacs UI features
1438 ---------------------
1440 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1442 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1443 starting with "tag:".
1445 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1447 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1448 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1450 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1452 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1454 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1456 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1457 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1462 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1464 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1466 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1467 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1468 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1469 requires a database rebuild:
1471 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1472 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1474 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1476 New collection of add-on tools
1477 ------------------------------
1479 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1480 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1481 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1484 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1486 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1487 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1488 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1490 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1491 ========================
1493 New, general features
1494 ---------------------
1496 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1498 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1499 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1500 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1501 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1502 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1509 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1510 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1512 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1516 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1517 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1518 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1521 Python bindings changes
1522 -----------------------
1524 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1526 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1527 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1528 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1529 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1530 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1531 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1533 Ruby bindings changes
1534 ---------------------
1536 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1537 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1538 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1539 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1544 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1546 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1547 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1549 Reply formatting cleanup
1550 ------------------------
1552 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1553 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1555 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1556 ========================
1558 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1560 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1561 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1562 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1563 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1566 Improved Build system portability
1568 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1569 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1570 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1572 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1574 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1576 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1578 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1579 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1580 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1582 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1583 ========================
1585 Vim interface improvements
1586 --------------------------
1588 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1590 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1591 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1592 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1593 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1594 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1596 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1598 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1599 * fix compose temp file name
1601 Python Bindings changes
1602 -----------------------
1604 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1606 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1607 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1609 Build-System improvements
1610 -------------------------
1612 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1614 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1617 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1618 ==========================
1623 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1625 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1626 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1628 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1629 =======================
1631 New, general features
1632 ---------------------
1634 Folder-based searching
1636 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1637 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1638 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1642 For example, one might use things such as:
1648 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1649 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1651 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1652 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1653 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1654 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1656 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1657 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1658 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1661 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1662 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1664 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1666 Support for PGP/MIME
1668 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1669 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1670 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1672 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1674 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1675 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1677 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1678 notmuch will receive these tags.
1680 New command-line features
1681 -------------------------
1683 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1685 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1686 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1688 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1690 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1691 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1692 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1694 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1696 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1697 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1698 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1699 which parts a signature part applies).
1701 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1703 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1704 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1705 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1706 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1707 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1710 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1712 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1713 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1714 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1715 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1716 by translating it internally to the new call.
1718 Performance improvements
1719 ------------------------
1721 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1723 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1724 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1725 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1727 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1728 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1730 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1732 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1733 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1734 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1736 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1737 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1738 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1739 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1741 Faster initial indexing
1743 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1744 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1745 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1747 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1749 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1750 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1751 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1752 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1754 New emacs-interface features
1755 ----------------------------
1757 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1759 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1760 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1761 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1762 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1763 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1764 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1766 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1768 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1769 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1770 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1771 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1773 User-selectable From address
1775 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1776 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1777 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1778 will prompt for the from address to use.
1780 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1781 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1782 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1784 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1785 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1786 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1789 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1791 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1792 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1794 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1796 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1798 ----- Original Message -----
1800 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1801 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1802 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1803 citations work much like conventional citations.
1805 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1807 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1808 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1809 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1810 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1811 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1813 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1814 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1816 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1818 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1819 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1820 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1822 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1824 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1825 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1826 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1827 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1828 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1830 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1832 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1835 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1837 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1839 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1841 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1844 Vim interface improvements
1845 --------------------------
1847 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1849 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1850 * Implementing archive in show view
1851 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1852 * Add delete commands
1855 Bindings improvements
1856 ---------------------
1858 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1860 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1861 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1863 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1865 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1869 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1870 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1871 `list(Messages)` works now
1872 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1874 These allow, for example:
1876 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1878 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1880 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1886 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1888 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1891 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1893 New build-system features
1894 -------------------------
1896 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1898 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1899 the configure script from some other directory:
1906 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1908 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1909 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1910 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1911 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1912 manual invocation of configure.
1914 New test-suite feature
1915 ----------------------
1917 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1919 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1920 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1921 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1922 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1923 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1926 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1928 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1929 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1930 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1931 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1932 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1933 are updated to take advantage of this.
1935 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1937 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1938 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1939 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1940 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1946 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1948 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1949 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1950 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1952 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1954 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1956 to:user@elsewhere.com
1958 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1960 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1962 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1964 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1965 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1966 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1969 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1970 from the Received headers in some cases
1972 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1973 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1975 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1977 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1979 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1981 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1982 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1983 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1985 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1986 -------------------------
1988 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1990 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1991 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1992 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1994 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1996 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1997 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1998 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2001 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2003 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2004 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2005 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2006 fixed to avoid this bug.
2008 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2010 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2011 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2013 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2014 ========================
2016 New, general features
2017 ---------------------
2019 Maildir-flag synchronization
2021 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2022 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2031 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2033 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2034 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2035 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2036 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2038 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2039 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2040 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2041 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2044 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2046 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2047 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2048 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2050 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2051 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2053 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2054 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2056 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2057 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2058 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2060 New library features
2061 --------------------
2063 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2065 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2066 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2067 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2068 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2070 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2071 message with the new function:
2073 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2075 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2076 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2077 over all available filenames for a given message.
2079 New command-line features
2080 -------------------------
2082 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2084 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2085 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2086 access to the mail store itself.
2088 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2089 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2090 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2091 name of a script containing:
2093 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2095 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2096 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2102 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2104 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2106 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2108 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2109 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2110 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2111 now produces nothing).
2113 Emacs interface improvements
2114 ----------------------------
2116 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2118 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2120 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2122 Display current thread subject in a header line
2124 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2126 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2128 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2129 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2130 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2131 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2132 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2133 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2134 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2136 Vim interface improvements
2137 --------------------------
2139 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2141 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2142 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2148 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2150 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2151 ========================
2153 New command-line features
2154 -------------------------
2156 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2158 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2159 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2160 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2162 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2163 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2164 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2165 scripts. For example:
2167 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2168 <operations-on> "$file"
2171 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2173 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2174 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2175 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2176 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2177 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2178 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2180 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2182 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2183 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2184 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2185 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2187 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2189 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2190 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2191 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2192 default rather than Bcc.
2194 New library features
2195 --------------------
2197 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2199 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2200 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2205 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2207 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2208 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2209 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2210 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2211 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2212 notmuch customize interface.
2214 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2216 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2217 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2218 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2219 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2221 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2223 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2224 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2225 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2226 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2228 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2230 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2231 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2232 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2233 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2234 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2235 notmuch customize interface.
2237 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2239 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2240 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2241 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2242 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2243 notmuch customize interface.
2245 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2247 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2248 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2249 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2250 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2253 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2255 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2256 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2257 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2260 New build-system features
2261 -------------------------
2263 Various portability fixes have been applied
2265 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2266 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2267 more portable than ever before.
2269 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2271 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2272 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2273 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2275 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2276 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2277 automatically run ldconfig.
2279 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2280 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2281 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2283 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2284 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2285 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2286 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2288 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2290 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2291 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2292 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2293 used in the resulting Makefile.
2295 New test-suite features
2296 -----------------------
2298 New modularization of test suite
2300 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2301 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2302 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2303 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2304 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2305 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2306 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2307 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2309 New testing of emacs interface
2311 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2312 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2313 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2314 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2315 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2316 database via the FCC setting.
2321 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2323 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2324 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2325 persistent error of the form:
2327 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2329 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2330 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2332 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2334 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2335 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2336 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2338 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2340 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2341 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2342 parsing the notmuch results).
2344 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2346 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2349 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2350 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2351 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2356 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2358 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2359 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2360 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2361 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2362 the emacs interface.
2364 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2366 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2367 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2368 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2370 Python-binding fixes
2371 --------------------
2373 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2375 Debian-specific fixes
2376 ---------------------
2378 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2380 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2381 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2382 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2385 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2386 ==========================
2391 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2393 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2394 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2395 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2396 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2398 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2400 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2401 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2402 want notmuch to crash.
2407 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2409 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2410 directory does not exist
2415 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2417 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2418 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2420 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2421 ========================
2423 New command-line features
2424 -------------------------
2426 User-configurable tags for new messages
2428 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2429 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2430 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2431 to specify this value.
2433 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2435 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2436 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2437 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2439 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2441 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2442 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2444 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2446 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2447 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2448 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2449 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2450 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2453 Indication of author names that match a search
2455 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2456 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2457 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2458 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2459 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2460 messages in the thread are listed first.
2462 New: Python bindings
2463 --------------------
2465 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2466 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2467 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2468 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2470 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2471 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2472 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2475 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2476 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2477 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2479 Emacs interface improvements
2480 ----------------------------
2482 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2484 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2485 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2486 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2487 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2488 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2489 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2490 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2491 but without any of the disadvantages).
2493 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2494 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2495 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2498 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2499 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2500 instead running something like:
2502 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2504 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2505 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2506 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2509 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2511 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2512 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2513 tweaked by the user.
2515 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2516 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2517 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2520 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2521 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2522 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2525 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2527 This support currently relies on an external program,
2528 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2529 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2530 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2531 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2532 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2535 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2536 notmuch) is available via:
2538 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2540 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2541 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2542 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2544 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2546 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2547 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2548 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2549 making this automatic in a future release.
2551 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2553 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2554 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2555 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2556 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2557 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2558 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2561 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2563 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2564 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2565 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2567 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2569 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2570 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2571 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2573 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2574 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2575 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2576 other representation.
2578 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2579 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2582 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2584 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2585 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2586 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2588 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2589 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2590 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2592 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2594 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2595 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2596 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2597 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2598 to display the search result.
2600 More flexible handling of header visibility
2602 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2603 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2604 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2605 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2606 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2607 with the 'h' keybinding.
2609 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2610 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2611 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2613 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2615 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2617 Customizable formatting of search results
2619 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2620 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2621 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2623 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2625 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2627 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2632 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2634 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2635 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2636 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2637 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2643 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2645 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2646 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2648 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2650 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2651 accept are now all accepted.
2656 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2658 Better display of output from failed tests
2660 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2661 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2663 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2664 ========================
2666 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2667 detailed release notes this time!
2669 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2670 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2672 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2673 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2674 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2675 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2682 Better guessing of From: header
2684 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2685 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2686 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2687 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2688 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2691 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2693 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2694 guaranteed to match all messages.
2696 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2698 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2699 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2700 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2701 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2702 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2705 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2708 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2709 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2710 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2711 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2716 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2718 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2719 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2720 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2721 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2723 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2725 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2727 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2728 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2729 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2731 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2733 Previously, the user might see:
2735 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2739 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2741 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2742 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2743 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2744 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2746 Emacs client features
2747 ---------------------
2749 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2751 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2752 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2753 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2754 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2755 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2757 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2760 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2761 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2762 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2763 search with the '*' binding.
2765 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2767 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2768 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2771 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2773 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2774 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2775 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2777 Build-system features
2778 ---------------------
2780 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2782 Add support to configure for many standard options
2784 We include actual support for:
2786 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2788 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2790 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2791 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2793 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2794 separate "make install-emacs"
2796 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2798 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2799 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2800 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2802 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2805 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2806 ========================
2808 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2810 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2811 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2813 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2814 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2815 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2816 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2817 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2818 tags from messages in a thread.
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