1 Notmuch 0.18~rc1 (2014-05-04)
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. Wildcard
25 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
26 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
27 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
28 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
29 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
30 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
32 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
34 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
35 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
36 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
37 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
40 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
42 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
43 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
44 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
45 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
46 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
47 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
48 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
53 Notmuch database upgrade
55 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
56 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
57 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
58 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
59 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
60 released version of Notmuch before now.
62 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
64 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
65 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
66 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
67 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
69 Message header parsing changes
71 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
72 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
73 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
74 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
75 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
76 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
78 Command-Line Interface
79 ----------------------
81 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
83 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
85 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
87 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
89 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
91 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
92 user does not want it.
94 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
96 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
97 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
98 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
99 support formatted output.
101 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
103 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
104 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
105 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
113 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
114 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
115 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
116 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
117 `~/.emacs` with these.
119 Changed format for saved searches
121 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
122 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
123 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
124 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
127 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
128 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
129 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
130 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
132 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
133 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
134 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
136 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
137 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
138 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
139 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
140 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
142 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
144 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
145 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
146 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
148 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
150 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
151 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
152 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
153 message had been unread).
155 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
156 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
157 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
158 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
160 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
161 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
162 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
164 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
165 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
166 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
167 to tags already present.
171 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
172 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
173 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
174 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
175 these differ from each other.
176 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
178 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
180 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
181 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
182 for these Emacs versions.
184 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
186 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
187 newlines before calling notmuch count.
189 Bug fixes for sender identities
191 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
192 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
193 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
195 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
197 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
198 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
199 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
200 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
202 Reply pushes mark before signature
204 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
205 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
206 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
208 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
210 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
211 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
217 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
218 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
220 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
221 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
222 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
223 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
225 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
226 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
227 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
228 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
229 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
231 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
233 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
234 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
236 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
237 =========================
239 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
240 ---------------------------------------
242 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
243 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
244 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
245 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
246 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
247 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
248 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
252 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
253 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
255 Command-Line Interface
256 ----------------------
258 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
260 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
261 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
262 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
263 print for each message.
265 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
266 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
267 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
268 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
270 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
272 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
273 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
274 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
276 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
278 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
279 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
280 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
281 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
283 `notmuch compact` command
285 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
286 functionality through a more convenient interface than
287 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
288 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
289 move the compacted database into place.
294 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
296 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
297 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
298 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
299 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
300 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
301 and multiple threads.
305 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
307 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
308 search, show and tree mode itself)
310 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
313 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
314 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
316 Customising `notmuch-tree`
318 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
319 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
320 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
321 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
322 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
323 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
324 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
326 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
328 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
329 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
330 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
331 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
332 thread when the search was performed.
334 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
336 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
337 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
338 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
340 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
342 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
343 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
346 Built-in help improvements
348 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
349 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
350 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
352 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
354 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
355 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
356 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
358 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
360 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
361 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
363 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
365 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
366 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
367 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
368 to move some of them to the common keymap.
370 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
372 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
373 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
374 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
375 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
377 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
379 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
380 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
381 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
383 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
385 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
386 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
387 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
389 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
391 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
392 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
393 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
394 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
395 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
397 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
399 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
400 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
401 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
402 the body part of the message.
407 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
408 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
409 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
411 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
412 =========================
414 Command-Line Interface
415 ----------------------
417 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
419 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
420 folder and notmuch index.
422 `notmuch count --batch` option
424 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
425 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
427 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
429 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
430 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
431 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
434 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
436 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
437 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
438 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
439 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
440 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
443 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
445 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
446 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
448 Top level option to specify configuration file
450 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
451 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
453 Bash command-line completion
455 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
456 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
457 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
458 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
459 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
460 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
461 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
462 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
463 bash-completion package.
465 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
470 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
472 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
473 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
474 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
475 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
476 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
477 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
478 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
479 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
481 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
483 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
484 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
485 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
487 Key bindings for next/previous thread
489 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
490 previous thread in the search results.
492 Better handling of errors in search buffers
494 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
495 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
497 Faster search and show
499 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
500 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
501 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
502 threads should show faster.
506 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
507 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
508 in question was now removed from this release.
513 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
514 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
519 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
521 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
522 ===========================
527 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
529 Internal test framework changes
530 -------------------------------
532 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
535 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
536 ===========================
538 Internal test framework changes
539 -------------------------------
541 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
542 build failures in non-interactive environments.
544 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
545 =========================
550 Date range search support
552 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
553 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
554 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
555 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
556 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
559 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
561 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
562 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
563 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
564 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
565 but may be removed in a future release.
567 Command-Line Interface
568 ----------------------
570 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
572 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
573 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
575 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
577 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
578 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
579 officially deprecated.
581 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
583 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
584 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
585 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
587 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
589 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
590 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
593 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
594 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
597 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
599 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
600 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
601 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
603 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
605 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
606 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
607 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
609 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
611 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
612 output separated by null characters rather than newline
613 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
614 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
619 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
621 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
622 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
623 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
624 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
626 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
628 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
629 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
630 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
631 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
632 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
633 the behavior of this, see
634 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
635 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
637 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
638 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
639 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
641 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
643 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
644 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
647 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
649 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
650 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
651 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
652 simply displayed in place of the message.
654 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
656 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
657 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
659 Improved text/calendar content handling
661 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
662 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
663 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
664 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
666 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
668 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
669 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
670 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
671 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
673 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
675 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
676 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
677 for HTML email containing images.
679 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
681 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
683 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
685 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
688 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
690 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
691 the point where it was.
693 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
695 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
696 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
697 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
698 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
699 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
701 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
703 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
704 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
705 thread instead of the message id.
707 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
708 -----------------------------
710 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
711 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
712 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
713 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
714 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
715 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
716 further details and installation.
721 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
723 Internal test framework changes
724 -------------------------------
726 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
728 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
729 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
730 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
731 can result in buggy behavior.
733 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
734 =========================
739 Maildir tag synchronization
741 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
742 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
743 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
744 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
745 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
746 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
749 Command-Line Interface
750 ----------------------
752 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
753 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
754 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
755 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
756 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
762 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
764 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
766 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
767 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
768 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
770 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
772 It is now possible to embed newlines in
773 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
776 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
778 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
779 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
780 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
781 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
782 inside the result or message.
784 Search now uses the JSON format internally
786 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
787 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
789 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
790 user-specified formatting
792 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
793 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
794 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
795 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
796 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
798 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
799 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
801 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
802 ===========================
807 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
808 compilation error for this contrib package.
810 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
811 ===========================
816 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
818 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
819 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
820 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
821 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
823 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
824 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
827 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
828 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
829 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
830 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
833 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
835 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
838 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
839 =========================
841 Command-Line Interface
842 ----------------------
846 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
847 for a reply message and full information about the original message
848 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
849 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
851 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
852 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
853 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
854 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
858 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
859 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
861 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
862 tag in your query, for example:
864 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
866 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
867 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
869 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
870 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
872 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
874 Raw show format changes
876 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
877 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
878 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
879 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
880 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
881 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
882 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
883 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
885 Listing configuration items
887 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
893 Changes to tagging interface
895 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
896 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
897 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
898 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
899 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
900 for more information.
902 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
903 may need to update in custom configurations.
905 Reply improvement using the JSON format
907 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
908 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
909 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
910 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
913 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
914 -----------------------------
916 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
917 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
918 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
919 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
920 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
921 contrib/ from now on.
926 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
927 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
929 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
930 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
932 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
933 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
934 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
936 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
937 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
939 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
940 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
941 returning the new database object or directory object.
948 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
949 compatible with go 1.
951 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
952 =========================
954 Command-Line Interface
955 ----------------------
959 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
960 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
961 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
962 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
964 Mail store folder/file ignore
966 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
967 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
968 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
970 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
971 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
973 Unified help and manual pages
975 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
976 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
979 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
981 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
982 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
990 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
991 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
992 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
993 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
995 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
997 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
998 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1000 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1003 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1004 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1005 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1007 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1009 should be changed to:
1011 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1013 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1015 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1016 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1018 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1020 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1021 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1022 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1023 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1024 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1025 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1029 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1030 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1031 of Mailing List Archives.
1033 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1035 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1036 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1039 Show view archiving key binding changes
1041 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1042 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1043 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1044 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1045 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1048 Support text/calendar MIME type
1050 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1053 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1055 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1056 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1057 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1058 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1060 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1062 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1063 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1064 messages blue by default in the search view.
1068 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1069 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1076 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1079 Python bindings changes
1080 -----------------------
1082 Python 3.2 compatibility
1084 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1086 Added missing unicode conversions
1088 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1089 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1090 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1095 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1097 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1098 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1099 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1100 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1101 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1103 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1104 ===========================
1109 Fix error handling in python bindings
1111 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1112 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1113 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1114 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1116 Quote MML tags in replies
1118 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1119 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1120 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1121 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1122 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1123 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1124 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1125 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1127 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1128 =========================
1130 Command-Line Interface
1131 ----------------------
1135 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1136 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1137 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1138 importing new messages into the database.
1140 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1142 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1143 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1144 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1149 Automatic tag query optimization
1151 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1152 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1153 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1155 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1157 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1158 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1159 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1164 Reduction of memory leaks
1166 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1167 and fixed in this release.
1174 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1175 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1176 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1179 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1181 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1182 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1183 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1186 Improvements in saved search management
1188 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1189 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1190 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1192 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1194 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1195 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1196 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1198 New face for crypto parts headers
1200 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1201 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1202 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1205 Use space as default thousands separator
1207 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1208 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1209 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1211 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1212 buttonized id: links
1214 New function notmuch-show-advance
1216 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1217 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1218 be bound to SPC with:
1220 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1222 Various performance improvements
1227 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1228 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1231 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1232 ===========================
1237 Fix crash in python bindings
1239 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1240 for some, but not all users.
1242 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1243 ===========================
1248 Fix `--help` argument
1250 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1251 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1252 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1254 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1255 =========================
1257 New build and testing features
1258 ------------------------------
1260 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1261 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1262 prerequisites is improved.
1264 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1266 New command-line features
1267 -------------------------
1269 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1271 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1272 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1275 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1277 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1278 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1279 favour of using stdout.
1281 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1283 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1284 limit the number of results shown.
1286 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1288 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1289 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1292 New emacs UI features
1293 ---------------------
1295 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1297 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1298 starting with "tag:".
1300 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1302 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1303 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1305 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1307 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1309 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1311 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1312 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1317 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1319 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1321 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1322 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1323 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1324 requires a database rebuild:
1326 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1327 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1329 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1331 New collection of add-on tools
1332 ------------------------------
1334 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1335 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1336 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1339 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1341 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1342 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1343 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1345 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1346 ========================
1348 New, general features
1349 ---------------------
1351 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1353 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1354 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1355 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1356 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1357 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1364 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1365 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1367 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1371 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1372 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1373 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1376 Python bindings changes
1377 -----------------------
1379 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1381 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1382 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1383 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1384 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1385 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1386 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1388 Ruby bindings changes
1389 ---------------------
1391 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1392 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1393 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1394 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1399 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1401 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1402 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1404 Reply formatting cleanup
1405 ------------------------
1407 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1408 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1410 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1411 ========================
1413 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1415 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1416 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1417 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1418 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1421 Improved Build system portability
1423 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1424 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1425 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1427 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1429 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1431 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1433 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1434 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1435 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1437 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1438 ========================
1440 Vim interface improvements
1441 --------------------------
1443 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1445 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1446 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1447 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1448 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1449 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1451 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1453 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1454 * fix compose temp file name
1456 Python Bindings changes
1457 -----------------------
1459 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1461 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1462 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1464 Build-System improvements
1465 -------------------------
1467 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1469 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1472 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1473 ==========================
1478 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1480 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1481 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1483 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1484 =======================
1486 New, general features
1487 ---------------------
1489 Folder-based searching
1491 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1492 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1493 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1497 For example, one might use things such as:
1503 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1504 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1506 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1507 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1508 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1509 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1511 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1512 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1513 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1516 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1517 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1519 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1521 Support for PGP/MIME
1523 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1524 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1525 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1527 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1529 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1530 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1532 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1533 notmuch will receive these tags.
1535 New command-line features
1536 -------------------------
1538 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1540 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1541 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1543 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1545 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1546 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1547 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1549 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1551 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1552 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1553 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1554 which parts a signature part applies).
1556 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1558 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1559 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1560 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1561 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1562 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1565 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1567 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1568 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1569 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1570 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1571 by translating it internally to the new call.
1573 Performance improvements
1574 ------------------------
1576 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1578 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1579 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1580 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1582 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1583 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1585 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1587 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1588 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1589 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1591 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1592 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1593 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1594 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1596 Faster initial indexing
1598 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1599 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1600 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1602 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1604 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1605 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1606 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1607 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1609 New emacs-interface features
1610 ----------------------------
1612 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1614 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1615 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1616 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1617 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1618 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1619 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1621 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1623 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1624 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1625 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1626 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1628 User-selectable From address
1630 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1631 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1632 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1633 will prompt for the from address to use.
1635 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1636 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1637 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1639 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1640 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1641 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1644 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1646 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1647 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1649 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1651 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1653 ----- Original Message -----
1655 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1656 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1657 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1658 citations work much like conventional citations.
1660 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1662 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1663 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1664 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1665 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1666 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1668 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1669 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1671 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1673 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1674 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1675 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1677 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1679 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1680 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1681 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1682 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1683 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1685 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1687 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1690 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1692 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1694 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1696 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1699 Vim interface improvements
1700 --------------------------
1702 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1704 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1705 * Implementing archive in show view
1706 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1707 * Add delete commands
1710 Bindings improvements
1711 ---------------------
1713 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1715 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1716 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1718 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1720 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1724 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1725 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1726 `list(Messages)` works now
1727 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1729 These allow, for example:
1731 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1733 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1735 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1741 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1743 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1746 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1748 New build-system features
1749 -------------------------
1751 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1753 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1754 the configure script from some other directory:
1761 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1763 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1764 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1765 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1766 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1767 manual invocation of configure.
1769 New test-suite feature
1770 ----------------------
1772 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1774 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1775 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1776 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1777 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1778 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1781 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1783 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1784 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1785 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1786 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1787 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1788 are updated to take advantage of this.
1790 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1792 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1793 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1794 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1795 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1801 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1803 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1804 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1805 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1807 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1809 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1811 to:user@elsewhere.com
1813 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1815 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1817 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1819 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1820 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1821 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1824 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1825 from the Received headers in some cases
1827 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1828 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1830 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1832 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1834 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1836 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1837 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1838 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1840 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1841 -------------------------
1843 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1845 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1846 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1847 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1849 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1851 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1852 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1853 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1856 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1858 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1859 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1860 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1861 fixed to avoid this bug.
1863 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1865 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1866 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1868 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1869 ========================
1871 New, general features
1872 ---------------------
1874 Maildir-flag synchronization
1876 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1877 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1886 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1888 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1889 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1890 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1891 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1893 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1894 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1895 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1896 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1899 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1901 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1902 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1903 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1905 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1906 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1908 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1909 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1911 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1912 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1913 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1915 New library features
1916 --------------------
1918 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1920 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1921 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1922 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1923 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1925 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1926 message with the new function:
1928 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1930 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1931 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1932 over all available filenames for a given message.
1934 New command-line features
1935 -------------------------
1937 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1939 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1940 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1941 access to the mail store itself.
1943 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1944 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1945 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1946 name of a script containing:
1948 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1950 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1951 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1957 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1959 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1961 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1963 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1964 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1965 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1966 now produces nothing).
1968 Emacs interface improvements
1969 ----------------------------
1971 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1973 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1975 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1977 Display current thread subject in a header line
1979 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1981 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1983 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1984 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1985 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1986 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1987 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1988 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1989 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1991 Vim interface improvements
1992 --------------------------
1994 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1996 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1997 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2003 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2005 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2006 ========================
2008 New command-line features
2009 -------------------------
2011 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2013 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2014 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2015 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2017 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2018 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2019 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2020 scripts. For example:
2022 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2023 <operations-on> "$file"
2026 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2028 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2029 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2030 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2031 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2032 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2033 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2035 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2037 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2038 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2039 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2040 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2042 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2044 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2045 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2046 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2047 default rather than Bcc.
2049 New library features
2050 --------------------
2052 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2054 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2055 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2060 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2062 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2063 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2064 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2065 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2066 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2067 notmuch customize interface.
2069 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2071 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2072 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2073 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2074 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2076 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2078 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2079 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2080 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2081 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2083 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2085 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2086 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2087 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2088 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2089 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2090 notmuch customize interface.
2092 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2094 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2095 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2096 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2097 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2098 notmuch customize interface.
2100 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2102 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2103 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2104 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2105 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2108 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2110 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2111 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2112 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2115 New build-system features
2116 -------------------------
2118 Various portability fixes have been applied
2120 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2121 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2122 more portable than ever before.
2124 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2126 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2127 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2128 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2130 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2131 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2132 automatically run ldconfig.
2134 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2135 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2136 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2138 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2139 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2140 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2141 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2143 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2145 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2146 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2147 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2148 used in the resulting Makefile.
2150 New test-suite features
2151 -----------------------
2153 New modularization of test suite
2155 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2156 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2157 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2158 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2159 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2160 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2161 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2162 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2164 New testing of emacs interface
2166 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2167 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2168 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2169 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2170 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2171 database via the FCC setting.
2176 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2178 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2179 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2180 persistent error of the form:
2182 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2184 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2185 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2187 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2189 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2190 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2191 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2193 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2195 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2196 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2197 parsing the notmuch results).
2199 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2201 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2204 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2205 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2206 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2211 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2213 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2214 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2215 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2216 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2217 the emacs interface.
2219 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2221 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2222 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2223 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2225 Python-binding fixes
2226 --------------------
2228 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2230 Debian-specific fixes
2231 ---------------------
2233 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2235 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2236 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2237 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2240 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2241 ==========================
2246 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2248 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2249 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2250 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2251 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2253 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2255 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2256 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2257 want notmuch to crash.
2262 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2264 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2265 directory does not exist
2270 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2272 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2273 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2275 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2276 ========================
2278 New command-line features
2279 -------------------------
2281 User-configurable tags for new messages
2283 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2284 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2285 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2286 to specify this value.
2288 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2290 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2291 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2292 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2294 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2296 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2297 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2299 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2301 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2302 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2303 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2304 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2305 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2308 Indication of author names that match a search
2310 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2311 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2312 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2313 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2314 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2315 messages in the thread are listed first.
2317 New: Python bindings
2318 --------------------
2320 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2321 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2322 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2323 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2325 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2326 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2327 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2330 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2331 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2332 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2334 Emacs interface improvements
2335 ----------------------------
2337 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2339 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2340 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2341 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2342 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2343 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2344 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2345 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2346 but without any of the disadvantages).
2348 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2349 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2350 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2353 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2354 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2355 instead running something like:
2357 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2359 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2360 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2361 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2364 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2366 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2367 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2368 tweaked by the user.
2370 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2371 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2372 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2375 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2376 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2377 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2380 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2382 This support currently relies on an external program,
2383 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2384 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2385 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2386 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2387 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2390 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2391 notmuch) is available via:
2393 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2395 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2396 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2397 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2399 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2401 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2402 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2403 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2404 making this automatic in a future release.
2406 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2408 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2409 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2410 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2411 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2412 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2413 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2416 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2418 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2419 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2420 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2422 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2424 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2425 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2426 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2428 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2429 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2430 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2431 other representation.
2433 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2434 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2437 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2439 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2440 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2441 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2443 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2444 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2445 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2447 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2449 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2450 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2451 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2452 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2453 to display the search result.
2455 More flexible handling of header visibility
2457 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2458 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2459 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2460 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2461 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2462 with the 'h' keybinding.
2464 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2465 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2466 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2468 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2470 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2472 Customizable formatting of search results
2474 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2475 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2476 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2478 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2480 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2482 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2487 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2489 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2490 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2491 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2492 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2498 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2500 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2501 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2503 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2505 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2506 accept are now all accepted.
2511 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2513 Better display of output from failed tests
2515 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2516 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2518 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2519 ========================
2521 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2522 detailed release notes this time!
2524 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2525 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2527 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2528 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2529 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2530 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2537 Better guessing of From: header
2539 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2540 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2541 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2542 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2543 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2546 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2548 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2549 guaranteed to match all messages.
2551 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2553 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2554 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2555 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2556 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2557 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2560 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2563 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2564 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2565 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2566 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2571 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2573 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2574 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2575 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2576 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2578 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2580 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2582 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2583 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2584 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2586 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2588 Previously, the user might see:
2590 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2594 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2596 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2597 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2598 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2599 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2601 Emacs client features
2602 ---------------------
2604 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2606 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2607 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2608 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2609 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2610 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2612 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2615 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2616 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2617 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2618 search with the '*' binding.
2620 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2622 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2623 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2626 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2628 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2629 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2630 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2632 Build-system features
2633 ---------------------
2635 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2637 Add support to configure for many standard options
2639 We include actual support for:
2641 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2643 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2645 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2646 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2648 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2649 separate "make install-emacs"
2651 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2653 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2654 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2655 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2657 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2660 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2661 ========================
2663 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2665 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2666 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2668 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2669 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2670 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2671 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2672 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2673 tags from messages in a thread.
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