1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Top level option to redirect writes to stderr
40 With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to
41 the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout.
43 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
45 Bash command-line completion
47 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
48 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
49 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
50 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
51 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
52 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
53 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
54 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
55 bash-completion package.
60 The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib.
61 We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it
62 has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that
63 people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for
64 notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision.
69 New keymap to view/save parts
71 To view or save a single MIME part of a message, use the new "."
72 submap (e.g., ". s" to save, ". v" to view). Previously, these keys
73 were only available when point was on a part button and they did not
74 have the "." prefix, so they were difficult to invoke (impossible if
75 a part did not have a button) and clashed with other bindings.
76 These new bindings also appear in show's help, so you don't have to
79 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
81 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
82 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
83 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
85 Better handling of errors in search buffers
87 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
88 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
92 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
93 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
94 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
98 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
99 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
100 in question was now removed from this release.
102 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
103 ===========================
108 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
110 Internal test framework changes
111 -------------------------------
113 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
116 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
117 ===========================
119 Internal test framework changes
120 -------------------------------
122 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
123 build failures in non-interactive environments.
125 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
126 =========================
131 Date range search support
133 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
134 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
135 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
136 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
137 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
140 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
142 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
143 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
144 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
145 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
146 but may be removed in a future release.
148 Command-Line Interface
149 ----------------------
151 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
153 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
154 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
156 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
158 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
159 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
160 officially deprecated.
162 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
164 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
165 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
166 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
168 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
170 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
171 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
174 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
175 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
178 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
180 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
181 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
182 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
184 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
186 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
187 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
188 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
190 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
192 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
193 output separated by null characters rather than newline
194 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
195 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
200 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
202 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
203 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
204 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
205 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
207 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
209 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
210 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
211 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
212 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
213 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
214 the behavior of this, see
215 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
216 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
218 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
219 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
220 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
222 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
224 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
225 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
228 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
230 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
231 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
232 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
233 simply displayed in place of the message.
235 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
237 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
238 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
240 Improved text/calendar content handling
242 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
243 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
244 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
245 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
247 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
249 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
250 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
251 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
252 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
254 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
256 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
257 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
258 for HTML email containing images.
260 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
262 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
264 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
266 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
269 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
271 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
272 the point where it was.
274 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
276 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
277 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
278 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
279 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
280 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
282 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
284 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
285 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
286 thread instead of the message id.
288 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
289 -----------------------------
291 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
292 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
293 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
294 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
295 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
296 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
297 further details and installation.
302 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
304 Internal test framework changes
305 -------------------------------
307 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
309 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
310 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
311 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
312 can result in buggy behavior.
314 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
315 =========================
320 Maildir tag synchronization
322 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
323 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
324 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
325 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
326 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
327 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
330 Command-Line Interface
331 ----------------------
333 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
334 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
335 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
336 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
337 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
343 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
345 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
347 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
348 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
349 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
351 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
353 It is now possible to embed newlines in
354 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
357 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
359 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
360 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
361 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
362 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
363 inside the result or message.
365 Search now uses the JSON format internally
367 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
368 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
370 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
371 user-specified formatting
373 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
374 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
375 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
376 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
377 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
379 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
380 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
382 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
383 ===========================
388 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
389 compilation error for this contrib package.
391 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
392 ===========================
397 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
399 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
400 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
401 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
402 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
404 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
405 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
408 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
409 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
410 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
411 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
414 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
416 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
419 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
420 =========================
422 Command-Line Interface
423 ----------------------
427 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
428 for a reply message and full information about the original message
429 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
430 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
432 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
433 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
434 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
435 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
439 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
440 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
442 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
443 tag in your query, for example:
445 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
447 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
448 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
450 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
451 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
453 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
455 Raw show format changes
457 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
458 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
459 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
460 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
461 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
462 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
463 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
464 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
466 Listing configuration items
468 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
474 Changes to tagging interface
476 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
477 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
478 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
479 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
480 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
481 for more information.
483 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
484 may need to update in custom configurations.
486 Reply improvement using the JSON format
488 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
489 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
490 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
491 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
494 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
495 -----------------------------
497 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
498 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
499 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
500 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
501 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
502 contrib/ from now on.
507 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
508 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
510 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
511 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
513 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
514 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
515 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
517 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
518 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
520 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
521 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
522 returning the new database object or directory object.
529 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
530 compatible with go 1.
532 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
533 =========================
535 Command-Line Interface
536 ----------------------
540 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
541 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
542 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
543 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
545 Mail store folder/file ignore
547 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
548 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
549 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
551 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
552 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
554 Unified help and manual pages
556 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
557 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
560 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
562 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
563 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
571 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
572 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
573 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
574 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
576 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
578 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
579 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
581 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
584 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
585 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
586 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
588 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
590 should be changed to:
592 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
594 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
596 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
597 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
599 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
601 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
602 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
603 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
604 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
605 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
606 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
610 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
611 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
612 of Mailing List Archives.
614 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
616 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
617 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
620 Show view archiving key binding changes
622 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
623 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
624 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
625 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
626 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
629 Support text/calendar MIME type
631 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
634 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
636 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
637 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
638 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
639 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
641 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
643 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
644 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
645 messages blue by default in the search view.
649 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
650 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
657 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
660 Python bindings changes
661 -----------------------
663 Python 3.2 compatibility
665 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
667 Added missing unicode conversions
669 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
670 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
671 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
676 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
678 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
679 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
680 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
681 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
682 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
684 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
685 ===========================
690 Fix error handling in python bindings
692 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
693 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
694 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
695 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
697 Quote MML tags in replies
699 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
700 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
701 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
702 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
703 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
704 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
705 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
706 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
708 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
709 =========================
711 Command-Line Interface
712 ----------------------
716 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
717 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
718 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
719 importing new messages into the database.
721 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
723 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
724 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
725 sometimes. This is now fixed.
730 Automatic tag query optimization
732 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
733 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
734 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
736 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
738 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
739 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
740 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
745 Reduction of memory leaks
747 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
748 and fixed in this release.
755 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
756 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
757 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
760 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
762 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
763 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
764 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
767 Improvements in saved search management
769 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
770 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
771 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
773 Hooks for notmuch-hello
775 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
776 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
777 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
779 New face for crypto parts headers
781 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
782 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
783 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
786 Use space as default thousands separator
788 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
789 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
790 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
792 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
795 New function notmuch-show-advance
797 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
798 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
799 be bound to SPC with:
801 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
803 Various performance improvements
808 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
809 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
812 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
813 ===========================
818 Fix crash in python bindings
820 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
821 for some, but not all users.
823 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
824 ===========================
829 Fix `--help` argument
831 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
832 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
833 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
835 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
836 =========================
838 New build and testing features
839 ------------------------------
841 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
842 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
843 prerequisites is improved.
845 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
847 New command-line features
848 -------------------------
850 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
852 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
853 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
856 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
858 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
859 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
860 favour of using stdout.
862 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
864 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
865 limit the number of results shown.
867 Add `notmuch count --output` option
869 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
870 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
873 New emacs UI features
874 ---------------------
876 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
878 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
879 starting with "tag:".
881 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
883 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
884 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
886 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
888 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
890 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
892 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
893 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
898 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
900 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
902 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
903 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
904 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
905 requires a database rebuild:
907 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
908 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
910 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
912 New collection of add-on tools
913 ------------------------------
915 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
916 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
917 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
920 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
922 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
923 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
924 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
926 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
927 ========================
929 New, general features
930 ---------------------
932 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
934 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
935 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
936 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
937 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
938 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
945 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
946 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
948 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
952 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
953 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
954 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
957 Python bindings changes
958 -----------------------
960 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
962 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
963 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
964 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
965 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
966 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
967 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
969 Ruby bindings changes
970 ---------------------
972 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
973 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
974 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
975 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
980 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
982 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
983 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
985 Reply formatting cleanup
986 ------------------------
988 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
989 MIME parts are being suppressed.
991 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
992 ========================
994 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
996 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
997 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
998 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
999 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1002 Improved Build system portability
1004 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1005 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1006 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1008 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1010 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1012 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1014 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1015 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1016 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1018 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1019 ========================
1021 Vim interface improvements
1022 --------------------------
1024 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1026 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1027 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1028 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1029 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1030 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1032 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1034 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1035 * fix compose temp file name
1037 Python Bindings changes
1038 -----------------------
1040 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1042 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1043 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1045 Build-System improvements
1046 -------------------------
1048 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1050 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1053 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1054 ==========================
1059 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1061 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1062 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1064 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1065 =======================
1067 New, general features
1068 ---------------------
1070 Folder-based searching
1072 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1073 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1074 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1078 For example, one might use things such as:
1084 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1085 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1087 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1088 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1089 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1090 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1092 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1093 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1094 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1097 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1098 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1100 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1102 Support for PGP/MIME
1104 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1105 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1106 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1108 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1110 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1111 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1113 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1114 notmuch will receive these tags.
1116 New command-line features
1117 -------------------------
1119 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1121 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1122 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1124 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1126 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1127 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1128 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1130 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1132 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1133 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1134 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1135 which parts a signature part applies).
1137 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1139 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1140 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1141 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1142 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1143 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1146 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1148 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1149 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1150 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1151 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1152 by translating it internally to the new call.
1154 Performance improvements
1155 ------------------------
1157 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1159 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1160 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1161 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1163 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1164 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1166 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1168 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1169 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1170 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1172 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1173 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1174 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1175 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1177 Faster initial indexing
1179 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1180 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1181 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1183 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1185 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1186 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1187 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1188 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1190 New emacs-interface features
1191 ----------------------------
1193 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1195 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1196 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1197 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1198 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1199 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1200 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1202 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1204 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1205 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1206 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1207 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1209 User-selectable From address
1211 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1212 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1213 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1214 will prompt for the from address to use.
1216 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1217 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1218 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1220 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1221 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1222 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1225 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1227 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1228 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1230 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1232 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1234 ----- Original Message -----
1236 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1237 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1238 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1239 citations work much like conventional citations.
1241 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1243 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1244 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1245 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1246 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1247 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1249 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1250 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1252 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1254 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1255 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1256 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1258 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1260 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1261 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1262 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1263 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1264 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1266 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1268 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1271 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1273 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1275 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1277 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1280 Vim interface improvements
1281 --------------------------
1283 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1285 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1286 * Implementing archive in show view
1287 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1288 * Add delete commands
1291 Bindings improvements
1292 ---------------------
1294 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1296 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1297 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1299 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1301 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1305 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1306 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1307 `list(Messages)` works now
1308 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1310 These allow, for example:
1312 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1314 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1316 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1322 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1324 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1327 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1329 New build-system features
1330 -------------------------
1332 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1334 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1335 the configure script from some other directory:
1342 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1344 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1345 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1346 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1347 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1348 manual invocation of configure.
1350 New test-suite feature
1351 ----------------------
1353 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1355 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1356 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1357 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1358 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1359 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1362 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1364 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1365 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1366 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1367 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1368 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1369 are updated to take advantage of this.
1371 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1373 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1374 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1375 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1376 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1382 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1384 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1385 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1386 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1388 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1390 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1392 to:user@elsewhere.com
1394 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1396 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1398 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1400 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1401 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1402 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1405 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1406 from the Received headers in some cases
1408 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1409 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1411 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1413 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1415 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1417 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1418 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1419 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1421 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1422 -------------------------
1424 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1426 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1427 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1428 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1430 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1432 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1433 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1434 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1437 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1439 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1440 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1441 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1442 fixed to avoid this bug.
1444 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1446 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1447 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1449 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1450 ========================
1452 New, general features
1453 ---------------------
1455 Maildir-flag synchronization
1457 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1458 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1467 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1469 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1470 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1471 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1472 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1474 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1475 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1476 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1477 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1480 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1482 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1483 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1484 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1486 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1487 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1489 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1490 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1492 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1493 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1494 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1496 New library features
1497 --------------------
1499 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1501 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1502 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1503 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1504 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1506 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1507 message with the new function:
1509 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1511 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1512 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1513 over all available filenames for a given message.
1515 New command-line features
1516 -------------------------
1518 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1520 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1521 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1522 access to the mail store itself.
1524 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1525 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1526 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1527 name of a script containing:
1529 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1531 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1532 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1538 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1540 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1542 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1544 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1545 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1546 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1547 now produces nothing).
1549 Emacs interface improvements
1550 ----------------------------
1552 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1554 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1556 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1558 Display current thread subject in a header line
1560 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1562 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1564 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1565 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1566 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1567 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1568 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1569 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1570 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1572 Vim interface improvements
1573 --------------------------
1575 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1577 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1578 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1584 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1586 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1587 ========================
1589 New command-line features
1590 -------------------------
1592 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1594 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1595 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1596 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1598 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1599 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1600 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1601 scripts. For example:
1603 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1604 <operations-on> "$file"
1607 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1609 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1610 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1611 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1612 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1613 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1614 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1616 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1618 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1619 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1620 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1621 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1623 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1625 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1626 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1627 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1628 default rather than Bcc.
1630 New library features
1631 --------------------
1633 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1635 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1636 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1641 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1643 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1644 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1645 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1646 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1647 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1648 notmuch customize interface.
1650 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1652 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1653 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1654 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1655 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1657 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1659 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1660 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1661 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1662 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1664 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1666 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1667 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1668 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1669 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1670 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1671 notmuch customize interface.
1673 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1675 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1676 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1677 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1678 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1679 notmuch customize interface.
1681 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1683 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1684 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1685 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1686 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1689 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1691 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1692 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1693 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1696 New build-system features
1697 -------------------------
1699 Various portability fixes have been applied
1701 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1702 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1703 more portable than ever before.
1705 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1707 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1708 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1709 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1711 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1712 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1713 automatically run ldconfig.
1715 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1716 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1717 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1719 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1720 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1721 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1722 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1724 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1726 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1727 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1728 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1729 used in the resulting Makefile.
1731 New test-suite features
1732 -----------------------
1734 New modularization of test suite
1736 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1737 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1738 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1739 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1740 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1741 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1742 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1743 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1745 New testing of emacs interface
1747 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1748 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1749 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1750 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1751 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1752 database via the FCC setting.
1757 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1759 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1760 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1761 persistent error of the form:
1763 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1765 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1766 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1768 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1770 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1771 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1772 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1774 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1776 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1777 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1778 parsing the notmuch results).
1780 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1782 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1785 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1786 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1787 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1792 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1794 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1795 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1796 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1797 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1798 the emacs interface.
1800 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1802 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1803 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1804 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1806 Python-binding fixes
1807 --------------------
1809 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1811 Debian-specific fixes
1812 ---------------------
1814 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1816 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1817 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1818 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1821 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1822 ==========================
1827 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1829 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1830 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1831 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1832 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1834 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1836 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1837 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1838 want notmuch to crash.
1843 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1845 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1846 directory does not exist
1851 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1853 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1854 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1856 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1857 ========================
1859 New command-line features
1860 -------------------------
1862 User-configurable tags for new messages
1864 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1865 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1866 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1867 to specify this value.
1869 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1871 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1872 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1873 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1875 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1877 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1878 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1880 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1882 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1883 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1884 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1885 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1886 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1889 Indication of author names that match a search
1891 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1892 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1893 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1894 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1895 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1896 messages in the thread are listed first.
1898 New: Python bindings
1899 --------------------
1901 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1902 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1903 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1904 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1906 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1907 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1908 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1911 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1912 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1913 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1915 Emacs interface improvements
1916 ----------------------------
1918 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1920 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1921 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1922 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1923 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1924 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1925 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1926 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1927 but without any of the disadvantages).
1929 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1930 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1931 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1934 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1935 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1936 instead running something like:
1938 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1940 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1941 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1942 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1945 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1947 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1948 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1949 tweaked by the user.
1951 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1952 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1953 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1956 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1957 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1958 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1961 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1963 This support currently relies on an external program,
1964 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1965 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1966 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1967 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1968 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1971 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1972 notmuch) is available via:
1974 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1976 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1977 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1978 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1980 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1982 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1983 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1984 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1985 making this automatic in a future release.
1987 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1989 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1990 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1991 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1992 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1993 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1994 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1997 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1999 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2000 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2001 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2003 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2005 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2006 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2007 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2009 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2010 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2011 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2012 other representation.
2014 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2015 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2018 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2020 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2021 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2022 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2024 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2025 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2026 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2028 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2030 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2031 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2032 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2033 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2034 to display the search result.
2036 More flexible handling of header visibility
2038 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2039 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2040 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2041 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2042 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2043 with the 'h' keybinding.
2045 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2046 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2047 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2049 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2051 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2053 Customizable formatting of search results
2055 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2056 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2057 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2059 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2061 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2063 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2068 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2070 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2071 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2072 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2073 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2079 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2081 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2082 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2084 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2086 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2087 accept are now all accepted.
2092 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2094 Better display of output from failed tests
2096 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2097 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2099 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2100 ========================
2102 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2103 detailed release notes this time!
2105 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2106 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2108 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2109 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2110 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2111 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2118 Better guessing of From: header
2120 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2121 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2122 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2123 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2124 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2127 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2129 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2130 guaranteed to match all messages.
2132 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2134 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2135 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2136 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2137 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2138 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2141 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2144 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2145 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2146 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2147 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2152 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2154 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2155 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2156 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2157 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2159 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2161 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2163 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2164 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2165 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2167 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2169 Previously, the user might see:
2171 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2175 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2177 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2178 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2179 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2180 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2182 Emacs client features
2183 ---------------------
2185 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2187 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2188 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2189 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2190 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2191 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2193 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2196 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2197 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2198 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2199 search with the '*' binding.
2201 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2203 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2204 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2207 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2209 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2210 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2211 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2213 Build-system features
2214 ---------------------
2216 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2218 Add support to configure for many standard options
2220 We include actual support for:
2222 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2224 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2226 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2227 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2229 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2230 separate "make install-emacs"
2232 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2234 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2235 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2236 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2238 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2241 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2242 ========================
2244 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2246 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2247 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2249 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2250 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2251 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2252 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2253 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2254 tags from messages in a thread.
2261 indent-tabs-mode: nil