1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
8 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
9 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
10 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
11 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
12 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
13 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
14 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
15 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
21 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
23 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
24 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
25 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
26 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
27 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
28 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
31 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
33 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
34 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
35 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
36 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
39 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
41 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
42 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
43 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
44 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
45 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
46 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
47 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
52 Notmuch database upgrade
54 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
55 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
56 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
57 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
58 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
59 released version of Notmuch before now.
61 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
63 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
64 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
65 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
66 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
68 Message header parsing changes
70 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
71 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
72 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
73 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
74 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
75 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
77 Command-Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
82 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
84 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
86 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
88 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
90 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
91 user does not want it.
93 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
95 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
96 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
97 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
98 support formatted output.
100 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
102 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
103 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
104 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
112 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
113 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
114 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
115 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
116 `~/.emacs` with these.
118 Changed format for saved searches
120 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
121 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
122 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
123 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
126 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
127 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
128 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
129 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
131 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
132 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
133 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
135 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
136 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
137 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
138 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
139 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
141 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
143 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
144 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
145 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
147 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
149 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
150 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
151 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
152 message had been unread).
154 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
155 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
156 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
157 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
159 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
160 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
161 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
163 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
164 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
165 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
166 to tags already present.
170 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
171 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
172 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
173 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
174 these differ from each other.
175 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
177 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
179 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
180 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
181 for these Emacs versions.
183 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
185 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
186 newlines before calling notmuch count.
188 Bug fixes for sender identities
190 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
191 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
192 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
194 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
196 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
197 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
198 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
199 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
201 Reply pushes mark before signature
203 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
204 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
205 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
207 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
209 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
210 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
216 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
217 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
219 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
220 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
221 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
222 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
224 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
225 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
226 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
227 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
228 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
230 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
232 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
233 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
235 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
236 =========================
238 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
239 ---------------------------------------
241 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
242 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
243 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
244 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
245 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
246 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
247 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
251 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
252 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
254 Command-Line Interface
255 ----------------------
257 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
259 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
260 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
261 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
262 print for each message.
264 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
265 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
266 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
267 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
269 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
271 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
272 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
273 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
275 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
277 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
278 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
279 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
280 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
282 `notmuch compact` command
284 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
285 functionality through a more convenient interface than
286 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
287 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
288 move the compacted database into place.
293 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
295 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
296 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
297 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
298 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
299 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
300 and multiple threads.
304 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
306 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
307 search, show and tree mode itself)
309 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
312 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
313 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
315 Customising `notmuch-tree`
317 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
318 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
319 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
320 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
321 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
322 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
323 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
325 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
327 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
328 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
329 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
330 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
331 thread when the search was performed.
333 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
335 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
336 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
337 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
339 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
341 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
342 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
345 Built-in help improvements
347 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
348 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
349 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
351 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
353 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
354 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
355 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
357 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
359 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
360 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
362 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
364 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
365 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
366 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
367 to move some of them to the common keymap.
369 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
371 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
372 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
373 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
374 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
376 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
378 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
379 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
380 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
382 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
384 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
385 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
386 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
388 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
390 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
391 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
392 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
393 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
394 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
396 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
398 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
399 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
400 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
401 the body part of the message.
406 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
407 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
408 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
410 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
411 =========================
413 Command-Line Interface
414 ----------------------
416 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
418 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
419 folder and notmuch index.
421 `notmuch count --batch` option
423 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
424 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
426 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
428 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
429 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
430 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
433 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
435 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
436 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
437 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
438 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
439 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
442 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
444 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
445 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
447 Top level option to specify configuration file
449 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
450 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
452 Bash command-line completion
454 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
455 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
456 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
457 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
458 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
459 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
460 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
461 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
462 bash-completion package.
464 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
469 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
471 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
472 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
473 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
474 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
475 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
476 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
477 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
478 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
480 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
482 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
483 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
484 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
486 Key bindings for next/previous thread
488 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
489 previous thread in the search results.
491 Better handling of errors in search buffers
493 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
494 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
496 Faster search and show
498 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
499 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
500 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
501 threads should show faster.
505 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
506 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
507 in question was now removed from this release.
512 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
513 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
518 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
520 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
521 ===========================
526 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
528 Internal test framework changes
529 -------------------------------
531 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
534 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
535 ===========================
537 Internal test framework changes
538 -------------------------------
540 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
541 build failures in non-interactive environments.
543 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
544 =========================
549 Date range search support
551 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
552 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
553 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
554 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
555 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
558 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
560 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
561 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
562 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
563 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
564 but may be removed in a future release.
566 Command-Line Interface
567 ----------------------
569 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
571 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
572 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
574 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
576 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
577 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
578 officially deprecated.
580 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
582 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
583 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
584 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
586 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
588 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
589 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
592 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
593 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
596 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
598 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
599 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
600 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
602 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
604 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
605 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
606 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
608 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
610 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
611 output separated by null characters rather than newline
612 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
613 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
618 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
620 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
621 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
622 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
623 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
625 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
627 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
628 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
629 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
630 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
631 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
632 the behavior of this, see
633 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
634 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
636 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
637 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
638 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
640 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
642 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
643 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
646 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
648 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
649 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
650 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
651 simply displayed in place of the message.
653 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
655 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
656 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
658 Improved text/calendar content handling
660 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
661 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
662 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
663 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
665 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
667 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
668 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
669 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
670 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
672 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
674 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
675 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
676 for HTML email containing images.
678 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
680 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
682 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
684 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
687 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
689 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
690 the point where it was.
692 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
694 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
695 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
696 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
697 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
698 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
700 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
702 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
703 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
704 thread instead of the message id.
706 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
707 -----------------------------
709 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
710 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
711 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
712 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
713 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
714 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
715 further details and installation.
720 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
722 Internal test framework changes
723 -------------------------------
725 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
727 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
728 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
729 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
730 can result in buggy behavior.
732 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
733 =========================
738 Maildir tag synchronization
740 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
741 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
742 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
743 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
744 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
745 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
748 Command-Line Interface
749 ----------------------
751 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
752 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
753 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
754 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
755 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
761 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
763 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
765 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
766 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
767 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
769 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
771 It is now possible to embed newlines in
772 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
775 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
777 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
778 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
779 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
780 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
781 inside the result or message.
783 Search now uses the JSON format internally
785 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
786 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
788 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
789 user-specified formatting
791 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
792 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
793 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
794 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
795 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
797 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
798 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
800 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
801 ===========================
806 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
807 compilation error for this contrib package.
809 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
810 ===========================
815 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
817 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
818 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
819 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
820 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
822 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
823 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
826 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
827 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
828 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
829 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
832 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
834 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
837 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
838 =========================
840 Command-Line Interface
841 ----------------------
845 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
846 for a reply message and full information about the original message
847 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
848 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
850 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
851 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
852 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
853 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
857 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
858 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
860 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
861 tag in your query, for example:
863 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
865 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
866 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
868 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
869 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
871 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
873 Raw show format changes
875 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
876 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
877 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
878 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
879 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
880 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
881 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
882 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
884 Listing configuration items
886 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
892 Changes to tagging interface
894 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
895 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
896 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
897 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
898 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
899 for more information.
901 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
902 may need to update in custom configurations.
904 Reply improvement using the JSON format
906 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
907 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
908 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
909 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
912 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
913 -----------------------------
915 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
916 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
917 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
918 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
919 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
920 contrib/ from now on.
925 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
926 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
928 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
929 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
931 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
932 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
933 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
935 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
936 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
938 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
939 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
940 returning the new database object or directory object.
947 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
948 compatible with go 1.
950 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
951 =========================
953 Command-Line Interface
954 ----------------------
958 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
959 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
960 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
961 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
963 Mail store folder/file ignore
965 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
966 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
967 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
969 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
970 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
972 Unified help and manual pages
974 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
975 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
978 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
980 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
981 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
989 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
990 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
991 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
992 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
994 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
996 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
997 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
999 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1002 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1003 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1004 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1006 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1008 should be changed to:
1010 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1012 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1014 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1015 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1017 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1019 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1020 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1021 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1022 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1023 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1024 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1028 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1029 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1030 of Mailing List Archives.
1032 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1034 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1035 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1038 Show view archiving key binding changes
1040 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1041 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1042 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1043 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1044 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1047 Support text/calendar MIME type
1049 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1052 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1054 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1055 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1056 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1057 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1059 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1061 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1062 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1063 messages blue by default in the search view.
1067 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1068 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1075 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1078 Python bindings changes
1079 -----------------------
1081 Python 3.2 compatibility
1083 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1085 Added missing unicode conversions
1087 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1088 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1089 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1094 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1096 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1097 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1098 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1099 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1100 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1102 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1103 ===========================
1108 Fix error handling in python bindings
1110 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1111 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1112 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1113 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1115 Quote MML tags in replies
1117 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1118 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1119 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1120 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1121 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1122 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1123 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1124 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1126 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1127 =========================
1129 Command-Line Interface
1130 ----------------------
1134 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1135 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1136 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1137 importing new messages into the database.
1139 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1141 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1142 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1143 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1148 Automatic tag query optimization
1150 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1151 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1152 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1154 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1156 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1157 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1158 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1163 Reduction of memory leaks
1165 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1166 and fixed in this release.
1173 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1174 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1175 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1178 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1180 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1181 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1182 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1185 Improvements in saved search management
1187 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1188 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1189 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1191 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1193 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1194 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1195 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1197 New face for crypto parts headers
1199 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1200 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1201 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1204 Use space as default thousands separator
1206 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1207 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1208 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1210 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1211 buttonized id: links
1213 New function notmuch-show-advance
1215 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1216 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1217 be bound to SPC with:
1219 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1221 Various performance improvements
1226 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1227 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1230 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1231 ===========================
1236 Fix crash in python bindings
1238 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1239 for some, but not all users.
1241 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1242 ===========================
1247 Fix `--help` argument
1249 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1250 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1251 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1253 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1254 =========================
1256 New build and testing features
1257 ------------------------------
1259 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1260 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1261 prerequisites is improved.
1263 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1265 New command-line features
1266 -------------------------
1268 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1270 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1271 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1274 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1276 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1277 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1278 favour of using stdout.
1280 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1282 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1283 limit the number of results shown.
1285 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1287 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1288 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1291 New emacs UI features
1292 ---------------------
1294 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1296 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1297 starting with "tag:".
1299 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1301 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1302 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1304 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1306 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1308 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1310 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1311 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1316 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1318 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1320 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1321 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1322 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1323 requires a database rebuild:
1325 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1326 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1328 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1330 New collection of add-on tools
1331 ------------------------------
1333 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1334 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1335 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1338 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1340 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1341 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1342 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1344 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1345 ========================
1347 New, general features
1348 ---------------------
1350 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1352 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1353 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1354 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1355 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1356 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1363 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1364 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1366 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1370 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1371 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1372 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1375 Python bindings changes
1376 -----------------------
1378 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1380 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1381 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1382 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1383 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1384 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1385 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1387 Ruby bindings changes
1388 ---------------------
1390 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1391 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1392 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1393 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1398 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1400 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1401 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1403 Reply formatting cleanup
1404 ------------------------
1406 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1407 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1409 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1410 ========================
1412 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1414 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1415 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1416 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1417 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1420 Improved Build system portability
1422 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1423 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1424 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1426 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1428 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1430 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1432 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1433 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1434 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1436 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1437 ========================
1439 Vim interface improvements
1440 --------------------------
1442 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1444 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1445 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1446 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1447 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1448 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1450 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1452 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1453 * fix compose temp file name
1455 Python Bindings changes
1456 -----------------------
1458 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1460 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1461 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1463 Build-System improvements
1464 -------------------------
1466 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1468 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1471 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1472 ==========================
1477 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1479 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1480 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1482 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1483 =======================
1485 New, general features
1486 ---------------------
1488 Folder-based searching
1490 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1491 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1492 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1496 For example, one might use things such as:
1502 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1503 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1505 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1506 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1507 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1508 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1510 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1511 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1512 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1515 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1516 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1518 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1520 Support for PGP/MIME
1522 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1523 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1524 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1526 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1528 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1529 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1531 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1532 notmuch will receive these tags.
1534 New command-line features
1535 -------------------------
1537 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1539 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1540 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1542 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1544 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1545 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1546 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1548 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1550 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1551 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1552 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1553 which parts a signature part applies).
1555 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1557 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1558 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1559 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1560 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1561 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1564 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1566 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1567 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1568 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1569 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1570 by translating it internally to the new call.
1572 Performance improvements
1573 ------------------------
1575 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1577 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1578 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1579 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1581 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1582 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1584 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1586 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1587 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1588 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1590 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1591 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1592 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1593 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1595 Faster initial indexing
1597 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1598 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1599 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1601 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1603 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1604 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1605 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1606 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1608 New emacs-interface features
1609 ----------------------------
1611 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1613 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1614 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1615 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1616 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1617 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1618 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1620 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1622 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1623 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1624 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1625 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1627 User-selectable From address
1629 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1630 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1631 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1632 will prompt for the from address to use.
1634 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1635 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1636 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1638 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1639 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1640 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1643 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1645 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1646 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1648 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1650 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1652 ----- Original Message -----
1654 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1655 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1656 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1657 citations work much like conventional citations.
1659 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1661 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1662 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1663 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1664 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1665 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1667 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1668 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1670 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1672 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1673 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1674 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1676 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1678 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1679 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1680 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1681 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1682 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1684 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1686 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1689 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1691 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1693 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1695 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1698 Vim interface improvements
1699 --------------------------
1701 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1703 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1704 * Implementing archive in show view
1705 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1706 * Add delete commands
1709 Bindings improvements
1710 ---------------------
1712 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1714 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1715 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1717 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1719 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1723 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1724 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1725 `list(Messages)` works now
1726 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1728 These allow, for example:
1730 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1732 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1734 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1740 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1742 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1745 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1747 New build-system features
1748 -------------------------
1750 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1752 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1753 the configure script from some other directory:
1760 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1762 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1763 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1764 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1765 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1766 manual invocation of configure.
1768 New test-suite feature
1769 ----------------------
1771 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1773 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1774 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1775 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1776 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1777 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1780 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1782 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1783 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1784 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1785 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1786 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1787 are updated to take advantage of this.
1789 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1791 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1792 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1793 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1794 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1800 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1802 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1803 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1804 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1806 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1808 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1810 to:user@elsewhere.com
1812 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1814 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1816 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1818 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1819 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1820 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1823 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1824 from the Received headers in some cases
1826 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1827 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1829 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1831 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1833 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1835 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1836 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1837 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1839 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1840 -------------------------
1842 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1844 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1845 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1846 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1848 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1850 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1851 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1852 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1855 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1857 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1858 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1859 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1860 fixed to avoid this bug.
1862 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1864 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1865 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1867 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1868 ========================
1870 New, general features
1871 ---------------------
1873 Maildir-flag synchronization
1875 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1876 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1885 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1887 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1888 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1889 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1890 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1892 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1893 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1894 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1895 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1898 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1900 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1901 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1902 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1904 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1905 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1907 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1908 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1910 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1911 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1912 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1914 New library features
1915 --------------------
1917 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1919 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1920 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1921 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1922 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1924 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1925 message with the new function:
1927 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1929 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1930 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1931 over all available filenames for a given message.
1933 New command-line features
1934 -------------------------
1936 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1938 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1939 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1940 access to the mail store itself.
1942 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1943 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1944 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1945 name of a script containing:
1947 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1949 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1950 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1956 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1958 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1960 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1962 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1963 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1964 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1965 now produces nothing).
1967 Emacs interface improvements
1968 ----------------------------
1970 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1972 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1974 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1976 Display current thread subject in a header line
1978 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1980 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1982 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1983 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1984 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1985 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1986 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1987 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1988 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1990 Vim interface improvements
1991 --------------------------
1993 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1995 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1996 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2002 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2004 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2005 ========================
2007 New command-line features
2008 -------------------------
2010 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2012 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2013 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2014 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2016 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2017 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2018 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2019 scripts. For example:
2021 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2022 <operations-on> "$file"
2025 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2027 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2028 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2029 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2030 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2031 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2032 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2034 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2036 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2037 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2038 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2039 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2041 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2043 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2044 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2045 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2046 default rather than Bcc.
2048 New library features
2049 --------------------
2051 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2053 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2054 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2059 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2061 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2062 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2063 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2064 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2065 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2066 notmuch customize interface.
2068 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2070 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2071 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2072 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2073 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2075 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2077 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2078 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2079 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2080 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2082 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2084 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2085 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2086 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2087 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2088 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2089 notmuch customize interface.
2091 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2093 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2094 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2095 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2096 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2097 notmuch customize interface.
2099 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2101 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2102 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2103 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2104 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2107 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2109 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2110 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2111 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2114 New build-system features
2115 -------------------------
2117 Various portability fixes have been applied
2119 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2120 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2121 more portable than ever before.
2123 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2125 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2126 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2127 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2129 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2130 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2131 automatically run ldconfig.
2133 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2134 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2135 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2137 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2138 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2139 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2140 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2142 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2144 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2145 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2146 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2147 used in the resulting Makefile.
2149 New test-suite features
2150 -----------------------
2152 New modularization of test suite
2154 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2155 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2156 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2157 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2158 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2159 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2160 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2161 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2163 New testing of emacs interface
2165 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2166 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2167 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2168 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2169 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2170 database via the FCC setting.
2175 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2177 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2178 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2179 persistent error of the form:
2181 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2183 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2184 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2186 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2188 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2189 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2190 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2192 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2194 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2195 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2196 parsing the notmuch results).
2198 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2200 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2203 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2204 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2205 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2210 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2212 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2213 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2214 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2215 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2216 the emacs interface.
2218 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2220 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2221 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2222 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2224 Python-binding fixes
2225 --------------------
2227 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2229 Debian-specific fixes
2230 ---------------------
2232 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2234 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2235 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2236 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2239 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2240 ==========================
2245 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2247 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2248 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2249 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2250 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2252 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2254 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2255 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2256 want notmuch to crash.
2261 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2263 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2264 directory does not exist
2269 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2271 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2272 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2274 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2275 ========================
2277 New command-line features
2278 -------------------------
2280 User-configurable tags for new messages
2282 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2283 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2284 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2285 to specify this value.
2287 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2289 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2290 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2291 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2293 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2295 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2296 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2298 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2300 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2301 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2302 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2303 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2304 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2307 Indication of author names that match a search
2309 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2310 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2311 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2312 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2313 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2314 messages in the thread are listed first.
2316 New: Python bindings
2317 --------------------
2319 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2320 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2321 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2322 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2324 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2325 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2326 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2329 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2330 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2331 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2333 Emacs interface improvements
2334 ----------------------------
2336 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2338 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2339 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2340 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2341 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2342 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2343 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2344 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2345 but without any of the disadvantages).
2347 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2348 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2349 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2352 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2353 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2354 instead running something like:
2356 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2358 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2359 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2360 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2363 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2365 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2366 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2367 tweaked by the user.
2369 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2370 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2371 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2374 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2375 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2376 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2379 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2381 This support currently relies on an external program,
2382 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2383 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2384 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2385 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2386 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2389 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2390 notmuch) is available via:
2392 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2394 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2395 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2396 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2398 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2400 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2401 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2402 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2403 making this automatic in a future release.
2405 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2407 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2408 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2409 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2410 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2411 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2412 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2415 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2417 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2418 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2419 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2421 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2423 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2424 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2425 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2427 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2428 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2429 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2430 other representation.
2432 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2433 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2436 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2438 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2439 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2440 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2442 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2443 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2444 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2446 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2448 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2449 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2450 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2451 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2452 to display the search result.
2454 More flexible handling of header visibility
2456 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2457 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2458 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2459 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2460 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2461 with the 'h' keybinding.
2463 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2464 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2465 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2467 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2469 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2471 Customizable formatting of search results
2473 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2474 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2475 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2477 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2479 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2481 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2486 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2488 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2489 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2490 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2491 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2497 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2499 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2500 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2502 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2504 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2505 accept are now all accepted.
2510 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2512 Better display of output from failed tests
2514 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2515 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2517 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2518 ========================
2520 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2521 detailed release notes this time!
2523 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2524 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2526 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2527 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2528 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2529 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2536 Better guessing of From: header
2538 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2539 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2540 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2541 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2542 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2545 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2547 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2548 guaranteed to match all messages.
2550 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2552 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2553 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2554 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2555 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2556 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2559 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2562 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2563 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2564 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2565 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2570 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2572 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2573 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2574 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2575 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2577 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2579 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2581 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2582 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2583 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2585 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2587 Previously, the user might see:
2589 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2593 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2595 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2596 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2597 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2598 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2600 Emacs client features
2601 ---------------------
2603 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2605 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2606 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2607 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2608 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2609 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2611 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2614 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2615 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2616 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2617 search with the '*' binding.
2619 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2621 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2622 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2625 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2627 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2628 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2629 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2631 Build-system features
2632 ---------------------
2634 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2636 Add support to configure for many standard options
2638 We include actual support for:
2640 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2642 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2644 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2645 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2647 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2648 separate "make install-emacs"
2650 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2652 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2653 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2654 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2656 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2659 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2660 ========================
2662 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2664 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2665 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2667 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2668 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2669 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2670 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2671 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2672 tags from messages in a thread.
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