1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
9 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
10 =========================
15 Date range search support
17 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
18 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
19 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
20 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
21 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
24 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
26 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
27 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
28 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
29 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
30 but may be removed in a future release.
32 Command-Line Interface
33 ----------------------
35 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
37 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
38 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
40 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
42 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
43 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
44 officially deprecated.
46 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
48 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
49 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
50 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
52 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
54 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
55 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
58 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
59 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
62 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
64 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
65 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
66 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
68 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
70 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
71 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
72 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
74 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
76 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
77 output separated by null characters rather than newline
78 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
79 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
84 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
86 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
87 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
88 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
89 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
91 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
93 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
94 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
95 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
96 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
97 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
98 the behavior of this, see
99 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
100 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
102 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
103 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
104 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
106 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
108 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
109 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
112 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
114 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
115 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
116 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
117 simply displayed in place of the message.
119 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
121 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
122 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
124 Improved text/calendar content handling
126 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
127 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
128 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
129 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
131 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
133 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
134 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
135 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
136 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
138 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
140 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
141 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
142 for HTML email containing images.
144 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
146 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
148 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
150 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
153 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
155 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
156 the point where it was.
158 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
160 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
161 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
162 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
163 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
164 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
166 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
168 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
169 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
170 thread instead of the message id.
172 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
173 -----------------------------
175 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
176 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
177 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
178 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
179 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
180 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
181 further details and installation.
186 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
188 Internal test framework changes
189 -------------------------------
191 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
193 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
194 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
195 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
196 can result in buggy behavior.
198 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
199 =========================
204 Maildir tag synchronization
206 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
207 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
208 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
209 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
210 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
211 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
214 Command-Line Interface
215 ----------------------
217 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
218 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
219 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
220 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
221 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
227 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
229 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
231 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
232 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
233 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
235 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
237 It is now possible to embed newlines in
238 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
241 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
243 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
244 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
245 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
246 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
247 inside the result or message.
249 Search now uses the JSON format internally
251 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
252 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
254 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
255 user-specified formatting
257 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
258 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
259 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
260 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
261 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
263 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
264 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
266 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
267 ===========================
272 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
273 compilation error for this contrib package.
275 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
276 ===========================
281 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
283 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
284 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
285 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
286 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
288 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
289 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
292 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
293 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
294 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
295 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
298 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
300 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
303 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
304 =========================
306 Command-Line Interface
307 ----------------------
311 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
312 for a reply message and full information about the original message
313 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
314 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
316 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
317 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
318 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
319 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
323 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
324 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
326 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
327 tag in your query, for example:
329 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
331 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
332 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
334 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
335 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
337 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
339 Raw show format changes
341 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
342 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
343 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
344 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
345 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
346 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
347 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
348 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
350 Listing configuration items
352 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
358 Changes to tagging interface
360 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
361 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
362 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
363 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
364 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
365 for more information.
367 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
368 may need to update in custom configurations.
370 Reply improvement using the JSON format
372 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
373 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
374 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
375 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
378 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
379 -----------------------------
381 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
382 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
383 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
384 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
385 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
386 contrib/ from now on.
391 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
392 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
394 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
395 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
397 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
398 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
399 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
401 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
402 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
404 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
405 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
406 returning the new database object or directory object.
413 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
414 compatible with go 1.
416 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
417 =========================
419 Command-Line Interface
420 ----------------------
424 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
425 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
426 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
427 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
429 Mail store folder/file ignore
431 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
432 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
433 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
435 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
436 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
438 Unified help and manual pages
440 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
441 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
444 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
446 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
447 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
455 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
456 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
457 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
458 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
460 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
462 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
463 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
465 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
468 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
469 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
470 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
472 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
474 should be changed to:
476 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
478 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
480 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
481 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
483 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
485 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
486 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
487 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
488 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
489 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
490 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
494 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
495 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
496 of Mailing List Archives.
498 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
500 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
501 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
504 Show view archiving key binding changes
506 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
507 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
508 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
509 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
510 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
513 Support text/calendar MIME type
515 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
518 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
520 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
521 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
522 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
523 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
525 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
527 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
528 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
529 messages blue by default in the search view.
533 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
534 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
541 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
544 Python bindings changes
545 -----------------------
547 Python 3.2 compatibility
549 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
551 Added missing unicode conversions
553 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
554 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
555 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
560 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
562 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
563 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
564 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
565 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
566 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
568 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
569 ===========================
574 Fix error handling in python bindings
576 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
577 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
578 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
579 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
581 Quote MML tags in replies
583 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
584 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
585 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
586 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
587 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
588 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
589 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
590 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
592 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
593 =========================
595 Command-Line Interface
596 ----------------------
600 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
601 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
602 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
603 importing new messages into the database.
605 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
607 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
608 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
609 sometimes. This is now fixed.
614 Automatic tag query optimization
616 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
617 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
618 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
620 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
622 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
623 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
624 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
629 Reduction of memory leaks
631 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
632 and fixed in this release.
639 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
640 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
641 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
644 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
646 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
647 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
648 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
651 Improvements in saved search management
653 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
654 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
655 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
657 Hooks for notmuch-hello
659 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
660 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
661 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
663 New face for crypto parts headers
665 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
666 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
667 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
670 Use space as default thousands separator
672 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
673 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
674 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
676 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
679 New function notmuch-show-advance
681 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
682 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
683 be bound to SPC with:
685 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
687 Various performance improvements
692 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
693 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
696 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
697 ===========================
702 Fix crash in python bindings
704 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
705 for some, but not all users.
707 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
708 ===========================
713 Fix `--help` argument
715 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
716 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
717 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
719 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
720 =========================
722 New build and testing features
723 ------------------------------
725 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
726 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
727 prerequisites is improved.
729 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
731 New command-line features
732 -------------------------
734 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
736 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
737 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
740 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
742 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
743 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
744 favour of using stdout.
746 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
748 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
749 limit the number of results shown.
751 Add `notmuch count --output` option
753 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
754 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
757 New emacs UI features
758 ---------------------
760 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
762 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
763 starting with "tag:".
765 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
767 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
768 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
770 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
772 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
774 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
776 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
777 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
782 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
784 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
786 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
787 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
788 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
789 requires a database rebuild:
791 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
792 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
794 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
796 New collection of add-on tools
797 ------------------------------
799 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
800 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
801 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
804 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
806 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
807 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
808 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
810 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
811 ========================
813 New, general features
814 ---------------------
816 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
818 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
819 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
820 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
821 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
822 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
829 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
830 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
832 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
836 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
837 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
838 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
841 Python bindings changes
842 -----------------------
844 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
846 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
847 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
848 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
849 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
850 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
851 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
853 Ruby bindings changes
854 ---------------------
856 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
857 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
858 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
859 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
864 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
866 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
867 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
869 Reply formatting cleanup
870 ------------------------
872 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
873 MIME parts are being suppressed.
875 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
876 ========================
878 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
880 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
881 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
882 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
883 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
886 Improved Build system portability
888 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
889 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
890 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
892 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
894 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
896 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
898 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
899 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
900 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
902 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
903 ========================
905 Vim interface improvements
906 --------------------------
908 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
910 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
911 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
912 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
913 * fix from list reformatting in search view
914 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
916 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
918 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
919 * fix compose temp file name
921 Python Bindings changes
922 -----------------------
924 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
926 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
927 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
929 Build-System improvements
930 -------------------------
932 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
934 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
937 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
938 ==========================
943 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
945 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
946 people running gcc 4.4.5.
948 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
949 =======================
951 New, general features
952 ---------------------
954 Folder-based searching
956 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
957 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
958 storage). The syntax is as follows:
962 For example, one might use things such as:
968 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
969 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
971 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
972 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
973 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
974 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
976 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
977 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
978 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
981 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
982 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
984 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
988 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
989 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
990 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
992 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
994 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
995 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
997 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
998 notmuch will receive these tags.
1000 New command-line features
1001 -------------------------
1003 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1005 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1006 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1008 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1010 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1011 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1012 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1014 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1016 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1017 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1018 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1019 which parts a signature part applies).
1021 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1023 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1024 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1025 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1026 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1027 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1030 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1032 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1033 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1034 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1035 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1036 by translating it internally to the new call.
1038 Performance improvements
1039 ------------------------
1041 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1043 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1044 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1045 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1047 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1048 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1050 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1052 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1053 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1054 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1056 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1057 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1058 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1059 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1061 Faster initial indexing
1063 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1064 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1065 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1067 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1069 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1070 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1071 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1072 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1074 New emacs-interface features
1075 ----------------------------
1077 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1079 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1080 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1081 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1082 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1083 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1084 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1086 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1088 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1089 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1090 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1091 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1093 User-selectable From address
1095 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1096 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1097 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1098 will prompt for the from address to use.
1100 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1101 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1102 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1104 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1105 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1106 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1109 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1111 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1112 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1114 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1116 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1118 ----- Original Message -----
1120 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1121 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1122 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1123 citations work much like conventional citations.
1125 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1127 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1128 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1129 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1130 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1131 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1133 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1134 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1136 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1138 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1139 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1140 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1142 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1144 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1145 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1146 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1147 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1148 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1150 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1152 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1155 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1157 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1159 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1161 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1164 Vim interface improvements
1165 --------------------------
1167 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1169 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1170 * Implementing archive in show view
1171 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1172 * Add delete commands
1175 Bindings improvements
1176 ---------------------
1178 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1180 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1181 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1183 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1185 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1189 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1190 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1191 `list(Messages)` works now
1192 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1194 These allow, for example:
1196 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1198 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1200 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1206 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1208 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1211 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1213 New build-system features
1214 -------------------------
1216 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1218 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1219 the configure script from some other directory:
1226 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1228 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1229 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1230 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1231 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1232 manual invocation of configure.
1234 New test-suite feature
1235 ----------------------
1237 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1239 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1240 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1241 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1242 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1243 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1246 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1248 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1249 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1250 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1251 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1252 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1253 are updated to take advantage of this.
1255 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1257 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1258 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1259 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1260 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1266 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1268 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1269 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1270 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1272 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1274 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1276 to:user@elsewhere.com
1278 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1280 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1282 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1284 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1285 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1286 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1289 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1290 from the Received headers in some cases
1292 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1293 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1295 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1297 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1299 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1301 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1302 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1303 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1305 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1306 -------------------------
1308 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1310 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1311 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1312 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1314 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1316 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1317 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1318 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1321 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1323 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1324 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1325 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1326 fixed to avoid this bug.
1328 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1330 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1331 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1333 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1334 ========================
1336 New, general features
1337 ---------------------
1339 Maildir-flag synchronization
1341 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1342 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1351 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1353 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1354 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1355 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1356 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1358 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1359 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1360 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1361 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1364 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1366 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1367 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1368 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1370 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1371 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1373 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1374 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1376 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1377 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1378 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1380 New library features
1381 --------------------
1383 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1385 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1386 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1387 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1388 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1390 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1391 message with the new function:
1393 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1395 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1396 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1397 over all available filenames for a given message.
1399 New command-line features
1400 -------------------------
1402 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1404 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1405 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1406 access to the mail store itself.
1408 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1409 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1410 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1411 name of a script containing:
1413 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1415 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1416 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1422 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1424 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1426 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1428 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1429 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1430 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1431 now produces nothing).
1433 Emacs interface improvements
1434 ----------------------------
1436 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1438 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1440 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1442 Display current thread subject in a header line
1444 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1446 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1448 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1449 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1450 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1451 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1452 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1453 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1454 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1456 Vim interface improvements
1457 --------------------------
1459 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1461 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1462 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1468 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1470 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1471 ========================
1473 New command-line features
1474 -------------------------
1476 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1478 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1479 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1480 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1482 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1483 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1484 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1485 scripts. For example:
1487 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1488 <operations-on> "$file"
1491 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1493 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1494 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1495 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1496 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1497 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1498 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1500 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1502 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1503 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1504 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1505 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1507 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1509 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1510 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1511 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1512 default rather than Bcc.
1514 New library features
1515 --------------------
1517 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1519 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1520 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1525 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1527 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1528 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1529 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1530 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1531 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1532 notmuch customize interface.
1534 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1536 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1537 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1538 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1539 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1541 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1543 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1544 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1545 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1546 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1548 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1550 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1551 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1552 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1553 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1554 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1555 notmuch customize interface.
1557 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1559 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1560 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1561 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1562 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1563 notmuch customize interface.
1565 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1567 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1568 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1569 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1570 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1573 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1575 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1576 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1577 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1580 New build-system features
1581 -------------------------
1583 Various portability fixes have been applied
1585 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1586 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1587 more portable than ever before.
1589 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1591 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1592 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1593 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1595 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1596 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1597 automatically run ldconfig.
1599 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1600 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1601 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1603 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1604 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1605 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1606 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1608 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1610 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1611 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1612 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1613 used in the resulting Makefile.
1615 New test-suite features
1616 -----------------------
1618 New modularization of test suite
1620 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1621 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1622 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1623 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1624 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1625 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1626 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1627 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1629 New testing of emacs interface
1631 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1632 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1633 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1634 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1635 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1636 database via the FCC setting.
1641 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1643 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1644 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1645 persistent error of the form:
1647 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1649 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1650 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1652 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1654 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1655 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1656 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1658 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1660 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1661 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1662 parsing the notmuch results).
1664 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1666 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1669 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1670 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1671 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1676 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1678 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1679 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1680 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1681 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1682 the emacs interface.
1684 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1686 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1687 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1688 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1690 Python-binding fixes
1691 --------------------
1693 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1695 Debian-specific fixes
1696 ---------------------
1698 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1700 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1701 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1702 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1705 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1706 ==========================
1711 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1713 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1714 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1715 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1716 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1718 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1720 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1721 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1722 want notmuch to crash.
1727 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1729 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1730 directory does not exist
1735 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1737 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1738 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1740 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1741 ========================
1743 New command-line features
1744 -------------------------
1746 User-configurable tags for new messages
1748 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1749 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1750 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1751 to specify this value.
1753 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1755 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1756 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1757 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1759 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1761 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1762 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1764 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1766 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1767 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1768 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1769 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1770 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1773 Indication of author names that match a search
1775 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1776 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1777 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1778 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1779 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1780 messages in the thread are listed first.
1782 New: Python bindings
1783 --------------------
1785 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1786 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1787 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1788 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1790 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1791 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1792 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1795 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1796 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1797 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1799 Emacs interface improvements
1800 ----------------------------
1802 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1804 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1805 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1806 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1807 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1808 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1809 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1810 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1811 but without any of the disadvantages).
1813 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1814 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1815 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1818 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1819 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1820 instead running something like:
1822 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1824 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1825 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1826 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1829 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1831 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1832 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1833 tweaked by the user.
1835 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1836 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1837 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1840 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1841 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1842 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1845 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1847 This support currently relies on an external program,
1848 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1849 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1850 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1851 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1852 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1855 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1856 notmuch) is available via:
1858 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1860 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1861 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1862 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1864 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1866 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1867 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1868 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1869 making this automatic in a future release.
1871 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1873 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1874 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1875 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1876 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1877 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1878 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1881 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1883 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1884 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1885 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1887 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1889 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1890 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1891 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1893 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1894 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1895 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1896 other representation.
1898 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1899 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1902 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1904 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1905 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1906 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1908 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1909 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1910 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1912 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1914 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1915 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1916 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1917 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1918 to display the search result.
1920 More flexible handling of header visibility
1922 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1923 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1924 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1925 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1926 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1927 with the 'h' keybinding.
1929 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1930 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1931 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1933 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1935 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1937 Customizable formatting of search results
1939 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1940 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1941 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1943 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1945 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1947 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1952 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1954 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1955 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1956 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1957 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1963 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1965 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1966 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1968 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1970 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1971 accept are now all accepted.
1976 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1978 Better display of output from failed tests
1980 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1981 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1983 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1984 ========================
1986 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1987 detailed release notes this time!
1989 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1990 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1992 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1993 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1994 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1995 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2002 Better guessing of From: header
2004 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2005 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2006 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2007 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2008 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2011 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2013 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2014 guaranteed to match all messages.
2016 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2018 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2019 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2020 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2021 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2022 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2025 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2028 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2029 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2030 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2031 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2036 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2038 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2039 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2040 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2041 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2043 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2045 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2047 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2048 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2049 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2051 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2053 Previously, the user might see:
2055 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2059 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2061 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2062 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2063 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2064 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2066 Emacs client features
2067 ---------------------
2069 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2071 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2072 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2073 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2074 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2075 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2077 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2080 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2081 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2082 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2083 search with the '*' binding.
2085 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2087 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2088 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2091 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2093 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2094 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2095 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2097 Build-system features
2098 ---------------------
2100 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2102 Add support to configure for many standard options
2104 We include actual support for:
2106 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2108 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2110 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2111 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2113 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2114 separate "make install-emacs"
2116 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2118 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2119 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2120 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2122 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2125 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2126 ========================
2128 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2130 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2131 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2133 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2134 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2135 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2136 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2137 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2138 tags from messages in a thread.
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