1 Notmuch 0.20 (UNRELEASED)
6 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
7 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
8 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
10 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
11 =========================
16 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
17 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
18 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
19 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
20 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
21 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
22 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
24 Command-Line Interface
25 ----------------------
27 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
29 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
30 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
31 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
32 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
33 script callers should still check the return value.
35 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
37 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
38 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
39 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
40 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
41 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
42 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
43 and returning success even if indexing fails).
45 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
47 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
48 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
49 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
51 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
53 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
54 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
55 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
56 currently unmaintained.
58 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
60 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
61 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
62 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
63 have at least `N` files associated with them.
65 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
67 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
68 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
69 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
70 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
71 count of duplicate addresses.
76 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
78 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
79 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
80 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
83 Improved handling of the unread tag
85 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
86 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
87 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
88 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
89 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
90 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
91 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
93 Expanded default saved search settings
95 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
96 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
98 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
100 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
101 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
102 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
104 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
106 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
107 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
108 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
109 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
110 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
111 the variable for details.
116 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
118 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
119 Representing these independently of the database version number will
120 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
121 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
123 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
125 Previously, library users were required to call
126 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
127 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
128 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
129 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
130 too out of date for that API.
132 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
134 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
135 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
136 atomic section will be aborted.
138 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
139 `notmuch_database_destroy`
141 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
143 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
144 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
145 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
146 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
147 messages into the same thread.
152 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
153 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
154 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
155 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
156 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
157 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
162 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
163 from the config file. Use something like:
167 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
168 "footer": "</body></html>",
177 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
182 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
183 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
184 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
186 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
187 ===========================
192 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
194 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
196 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
198 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
199 structure for signatures changed slightly.
201 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
203 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
206 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
207 ===========================
209 This is a bug fix and portability release.
214 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
216 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
218 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
220 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
222 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
228 Use --quick when starting emacs
230 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
232 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
234 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
236 Command-Line Interface
237 ----------------------
239 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
240 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
245 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
247 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
248 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
250 Fix for phrase indexing
252 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
253 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
254 will affect only newly indexed messages.
259 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
261 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
262 unintentionally removed.
264 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
265 =========================
270 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
271 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
272 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
273 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
274 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
275 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
276 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
277 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
278 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
284 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
286 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
287 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
288 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
289 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
290 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
291 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
292 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
293 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
295 There is a new `path:` search prefix
297 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
298 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
299 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
300 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
303 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
305 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
306 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
307 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
308 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
309 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
310 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
311 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
316 Notmuch database upgrade
318 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
319 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
320 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
321 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
322 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
323 released version of Notmuch before now.
325 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
327 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
328 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
329 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
330 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
332 Message header parsing changes
334 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
335 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
336 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
337 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
338 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
339 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
341 Command-Line Interface
342 ----------------------
344 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
346 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
348 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
350 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
352 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
354 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
355 user does not want it.
357 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
359 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
360 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
361 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
362 support formatted output.
364 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
366 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
367 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
368 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
376 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
377 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
378 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
379 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
380 `~/.emacs` with these.
382 Changed format for saved searches
384 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
385 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
386 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
387 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
390 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
391 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
392 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
393 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
395 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
396 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
397 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
399 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
400 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
401 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
402 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
403 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
405 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
407 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
408 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
409 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
411 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
413 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
414 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
415 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
416 message had been unread).
418 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
419 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
420 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
421 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
423 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
424 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
425 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
427 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
428 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
429 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
430 to tags already present.
434 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
435 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
436 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
437 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
438 these differ from each other.
439 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
441 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
443 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
444 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
445 for these Emacs versions.
447 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
449 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
450 newlines before calling notmuch count.
452 Bug fixes for sender identities
454 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
455 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
456 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
458 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
460 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
461 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
462 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
463 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
465 Reply pushes mark before signature
467 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
468 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
469 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
471 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
473 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
474 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
480 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
481 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
483 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
484 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
485 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
486 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
488 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
489 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
490 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
491 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
492 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
494 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
496 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
497 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
499 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
500 =========================
502 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
503 ---------------------------------------
505 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
506 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
507 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
508 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
509 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
510 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
511 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
515 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
516 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
518 Command-Line Interface
519 ----------------------
521 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
523 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
524 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
525 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
526 print for each message.
528 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
529 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
530 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
531 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
533 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
535 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
536 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
537 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
539 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
541 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
542 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
543 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
544 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
546 `notmuch compact` command
548 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
549 functionality through a more convenient interface than
550 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
551 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
552 move the compacted database into place.
557 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
559 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
560 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
561 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
562 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
563 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
564 and multiple threads.
568 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
570 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
571 search, show and tree mode itself)
573 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
576 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
577 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
579 Customising `notmuch-tree`
581 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
582 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
583 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
584 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
585 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
586 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
587 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
589 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
591 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
592 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
593 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
594 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
595 thread when the search was performed.
597 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
599 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
600 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
601 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
603 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
605 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
606 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
609 Built-in help improvements
611 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
612 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
613 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
615 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
617 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
618 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
619 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
621 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
623 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
624 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
626 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
628 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
629 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
630 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
631 to move some of them to the common keymap.
633 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
635 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
636 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
637 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
638 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
640 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
642 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
643 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
644 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
646 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
648 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
649 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
650 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
652 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
654 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
655 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
656 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
657 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
658 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
660 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
662 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
663 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
664 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
665 the body part of the message.
670 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
671 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
672 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
674 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
675 =========================
677 Command-Line Interface
678 ----------------------
680 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
682 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
683 folder and notmuch index.
685 `notmuch count --batch` option
687 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
688 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
690 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
692 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
693 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
694 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
697 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
699 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
700 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
701 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
702 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
703 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
706 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
708 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
709 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
711 Top level option to specify configuration file
713 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
714 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
716 Bash command-line completion
718 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
719 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
720 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
721 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
722 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
723 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
724 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
725 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
726 bash-completion package.
728 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
733 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
735 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
736 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
737 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
738 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
739 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
740 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
741 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
742 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
744 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
746 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
747 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
748 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
750 Key bindings for next/previous thread
752 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
753 previous thread in the search results.
755 Better handling of errors in search buffers
757 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
758 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
760 Faster search and show
762 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
763 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
764 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
765 threads should show faster.
769 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
770 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
771 in question was now removed from this release.
776 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
777 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
782 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
784 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
785 ===========================
790 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
792 Internal test framework changes
793 -------------------------------
795 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
798 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
799 ===========================
801 Internal test framework changes
802 -------------------------------
804 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
805 build failures in non-interactive environments.
807 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
808 =========================
813 Date range search support
815 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
816 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
817 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
818 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
819 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
822 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
824 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
825 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
826 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
827 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
828 but may be removed in a future release.
830 Command-Line Interface
831 ----------------------
833 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
835 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
836 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
838 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
840 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
841 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
842 officially deprecated.
844 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
846 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
847 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
848 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
850 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
852 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
853 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
856 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
857 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
860 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
862 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
863 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
864 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
866 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
868 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
869 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
870 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
872 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
874 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
875 output separated by null characters rather than newline
876 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
877 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
882 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
884 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
885 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
886 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
887 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
889 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
891 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
892 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
893 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
894 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
895 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
896 the behavior of this, see
897 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
898 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
900 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
901 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
902 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
904 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
906 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
907 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
910 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
912 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
913 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
914 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
915 simply displayed in place of the message.
917 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
919 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
920 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
922 Improved text/calendar content handling
924 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
925 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
926 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
927 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
929 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
931 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
932 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
933 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
934 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
936 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
938 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
939 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
940 for HTML email containing images.
942 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
944 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
946 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
948 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
951 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
953 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
954 the point where it was.
956 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
958 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
959 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
960 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
961 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
962 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
964 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
966 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
967 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
968 thread instead of the message id.
970 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
971 -----------------------------
973 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
974 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
975 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
976 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
977 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
978 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
979 further details and installation.
984 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
986 Internal test framework changes
987 -------------------------------
989 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
991 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
992 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
993 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
994 can result in buggy behavior.
996 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
997 =========================
1002 Maildir tag synchronization
1004 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1005 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1006 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1007 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1008 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1009 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1012 Command-Line Interface
1013 ----------------------
1015 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1016 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1017 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1018 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1019 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1025 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1027 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1029 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1030 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1031 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1033 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1035 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1036 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1037 span multiple lines.
1039 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1041 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1042 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1043 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1044 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1045 inside the result or message.
1047 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1049 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1050 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1052 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1053 user-specified formatting
1055 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1056 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1057 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1058 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1059 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1061 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1062 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1064 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1065 ===========================
1070 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1071 compilation error for this contrib package.
1073 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1074 ===========================
1079 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1081 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1082 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1083 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1084 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1086 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1087 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1090 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1091 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1092 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1093 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1096 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1098 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1101 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1102 =========================
1104 Command-Line Interface
1105 ----------------------
1109 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1110 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1111 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1112 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1114 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1115 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1116 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1117 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1121 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1122 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1124 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1125 tag in your query, for example:
1127 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1129 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1130 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1132 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1133 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1135 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1137 Raw show format changes
1139 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1140 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1141 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1142 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1143 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1144 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1145 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1146 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1148 Listing configuration items
1150 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1156 Changes to tagging interface
1158 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1159 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1160 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1161 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1162 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1163 for more information.
1165 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1166 may need to update in custom configurations.
1168 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1170 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1171 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1172 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1173 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1176 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1177 -----------------------------
1179 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1180 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1181 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1182 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1183 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1184 contrib/ from now on.
1189 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1190 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1192 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1193 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1195 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1196 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1197 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1199 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1200 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1202 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1203 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1204 returning the new database object or directory object.
1211 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1212 compatible with go 1.
1214 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1215 =========================
1217 Command-Line Interface
1218 ----------------------
1222 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1223 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1224 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1225 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1227 Mail store folder/file ignore
1229 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1230 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1231 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1233 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1234 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1236 Unified help and manual pages
1238 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1239 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1242 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1244 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1245 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1253 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1254 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1255 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1256 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1258 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1260 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1261 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1263 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1266 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1267 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1268 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1270 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1272 should be changed to:
1274 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1276 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1278 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1279 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1281 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1283 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1284 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1285 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1286 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1287 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1288 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1292 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1293 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1294 of Mailing List Archives.
1296 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1298 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1299 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1302 Show view archiving key binding changes
1304 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1305 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1306 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1307 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1308 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1311 Support text/calendar MIME type
1313 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1316 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1318 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1319 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1320 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1321 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1323 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1325 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1326 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1327 messages blue by default in the search view.
1331 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1332 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1339 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1342 Python bindings changes
1343 -----------------------
1345 Python 3.2 compatibility
1347 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1349 Added missing unicode conversions
1351 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1352 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1353 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1358 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1360 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1361 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1362 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1363 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1364 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1366 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1367 ===========================
1372 Fix error handling in python bindings
1374 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1375 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1376 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1377 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1379 Quote MML tags in replies
1381 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1382 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1383 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1384 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1385 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1386 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1387 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1388 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1390 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1391 =========================
1393 Command-Line Interface
1394 ----------------------
1398 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1399 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1400 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1401 importing new messages into the database.
1403 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1405 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1406 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1407 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1412 Automatic tag query optimization
1414 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1415 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1416 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1418 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1420 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1421 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1422 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1427 Reduction of memory leaks
1429 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1430 and fixed in this release.
1437 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1438 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1439 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1442 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1444 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1445 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1446 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1449 Improvements in saved search management
1451 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1452 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1453 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1455 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1457 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1458 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1459 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1461 New face for crypto parts headers
1463 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1464 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1465 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1468 Use space as default thousands separator
1470 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1471 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1472 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1474 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1475 buttonized id: links
1477 New function notmuch-show-advance
1479 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1480 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1481 be bound to SPC with:
1483 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1485 Various performance improvements
1490 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1491 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1494 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1495 ===========================
1500 Fix crash in python bindings
1502 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1503 for some, but not all users.
1505 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1506 ===========================
1511 Fix `--help` argument
1513 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1514 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1515 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1517 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1518 =========================
1520 New build and testing features
1521 ------------------------------
1523 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1524 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1525 prerequisites is improved.
1527 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1529 New command-line features
1530 -------------------------
1532 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1534 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1535 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1538 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1540 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1541 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1542 favour of using stdout.
1544 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1546 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1547 limit the number of results shown.
1549 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1551 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1552 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1555 New emacs UI features
1556 ---------------------
1558 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1560 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1561 starting with "tag:".
1563 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1565 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1566 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1568 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1570 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1572 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1574 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1575 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1580 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1582 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1584 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1585 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1586 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1587 requires a database rebuild:
1589 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1590 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1592 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1594 New collection of add-on tools
1595 ------------------------------
1597 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1598 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1599 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1602 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1604 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1605 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1606 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1608 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1609 ========================
1611 New, general features
1612 ---------------------
1614 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1616 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1617 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1618 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1619 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1620 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1627 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1628 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1630 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1634 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1635 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1636 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1639 Python bindings changes
1640 -----------------------
1642 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1644 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1645 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1646 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1647 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1648 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1649 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1651 Ruby bindings changes
1652 ---------------------
1654 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1655 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1656 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1657 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1662 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1664 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1665 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1667 Reply formatting cleanup
1668 ------------------------
1670 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1671 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1673 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1674 ========================
1676 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1678 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1679 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1680 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1681 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1684 Improved Build system portability
1686 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1687 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1688 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1690 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1692 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1694 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1696 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1697 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1698 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1700 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1701 ========================
1703 Vim interface improvements
1704 --------------------------
1706 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1708 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1709 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1710 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1711 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1712 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1714 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1716 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1717 * fix compose temp file name
1719 Python Bindings changes
1720 -----------------------
1722 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1724 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1725 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1727 Build-System improvements
1728 -------------------------
1730 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1732 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1735 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1736 ==========================
1741 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1743 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1744 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1746 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1747 =======================
1749 New, general features
1750 ---------------------
1752 Folder-based searching
1754 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1755 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1756 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1760 For example, one might use things such as:
1766 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1767 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1769 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1770 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1771 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1772 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1774 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1775 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1776 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1779 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1780 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1782 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1784 Support for PGP/MIME
1786 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1787 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1788 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1790 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1792 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1793 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1795 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1796 notmuch will receive these tags.
1798 New command-line features
1799 -------------------------
1801 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1803 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1804 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1806 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1808 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1809 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1810 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1812 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1814 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1815 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1816 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1817 which parts a signature part applies).
1819 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1821 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1822 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1823 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1824 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1825 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1828 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1830 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1831 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1832 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1833 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1834 by translating it internally to the new call.
1836 Performance improvements
1837 ------------------------
1839 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1841 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1842 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1843 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1845 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1846 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1848 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1850 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1851 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1852 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1854 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1855 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1856 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1857 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1859 Faster initial indexing
1861 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1862 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1863 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1865 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1867 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1868 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1869 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1870 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1872 New emacs-interface features
1873 ----------------------------
1875 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1877 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1878 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1879 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1880 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1881 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1882 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1884 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1886 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1887 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1888 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1889 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1891 User-selectable From address
1893 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1894 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1895 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1896 will prompt for the from address to use.
1898 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1899 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1900 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1902 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1903 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1904 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1907 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1909 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1910 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1912 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1914 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1916 ----- Original Message -----
1918 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1919 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1920 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1921 citations work much like conventional citations.
1923 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1925 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1926 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1927 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1928 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1929 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1931 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1932 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1934 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1936 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1937 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1938 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1940 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1942 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1943 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1944 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1945 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1946 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1948 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1950 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1953 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1955 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1957 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1959 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1962 Vim interface improvements
1963 --------------------------
1965 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1967 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1968 * Implementing archive in show view
1969 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1970 * Add delete commands
1973 Bindings improvements
1974 ---------------------
1976 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1978 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1979 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1981 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1983 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1987 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1988 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1989 `list(Messages)` works now
1990 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1992 These allow, for example:
1994 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1996 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1998 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2004 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2006 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2009 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2011 New build-system features
2012 -------------------------
2014 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2016 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2017 the configure script from some other directory:
2024 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2026 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2027 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2028 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2029 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2030 manual invocation of configure.
2032 New test-suite feature
2033 ----------------------
2035 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2037 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2038 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2039 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2040 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2041 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2044 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2046 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2047 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2048 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2049 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2050 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2051 are updated to take advantage of this.
2053 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2055 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2056 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2057 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2058 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2064 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2066 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2067 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2068 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2070 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2072 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2074 to:user@elsewhere.com
2076 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2078 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2080 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2082 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2083 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2084 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2087 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2088 from the Received headers in some cases
2090 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2091 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2093 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2095 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2097 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2099 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2100 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2101 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2103 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2104 -------------------------
2106 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2108 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2109 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2110 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2112 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2114 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2115 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2116 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2119 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2121 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2122 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2123 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2124 fixed to avoid this bug.
2126 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2128 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2129 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2131 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2132 ========================
2134 New, general features
2135 ---------------------
2137 Maildir-flag synchronization
2139 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2140 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2149 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2151 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2152 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2153 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2154 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2156 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2157 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2158 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2159 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2162 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2164 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2165 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2166 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2168 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2169 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2171 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2172 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2174 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2175 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2176 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2178 New library features
2179 --------------------
2181 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2183 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2184 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2185 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2186 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2188 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2189 message with the new function:
2191 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2193 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2194 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2195 over all available filenames for a given message.
2197 New command-line features
2198 -------------------------
2200 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2202 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2203 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2204 access to the mail store itself.
2206 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2207 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2208 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2209 name of a script containing:
2211 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2213 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2214 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2220 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2222 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2224 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2226 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2227 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2228 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2229 now produces nothing).
2231 Emacs interface improvements
2232 ----------------------------
2234 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2236 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2238 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2240 Display current thread subject in a header line
2242 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2244 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2246 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2247 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2248 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2249 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2250 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2251 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2252 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2254 Vim interface improvements
2255 --------------------------
2257 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2259 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2260 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2266 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2268 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2269 ========================
2271 New command-line features
2272 -------------------------
2274 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2276 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2277 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2278 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2280 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2281 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2282 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2283 scripts. For example:
2285 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2286 <operations-on> "$file"
2289 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2291 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2292 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2293 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2294 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2295 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2296 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2298 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2300 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2301 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2302 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2303 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2305 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2307 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2308 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2309 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2310 default rather than Bcc.
2312 New library features
2313 --------------------
2315 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2317 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2318 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2323 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2325 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2326 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2327 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2328 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2329 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2330 notmuch customize interface.
2332 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2334 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2335 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2336 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2337 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2339 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2341 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2342 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2343 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2344 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2346 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2348 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2349 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2350 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2351 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2352 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2353 notmuch customize interface.
2355 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2357 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2358 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2359 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2360 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2361 notmuch customize interface.
2363 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2365 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2366 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2367 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2368 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2371 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2373 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2374 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2375 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2378 New build-system features
2379 -------------------------
2381 Various portability fixes have been applied
2383 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2384 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2385 more portable than ever before.
2387 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2389 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2390 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2391 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2393 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2394 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2395 automatically run ldconfig.
2397 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2398 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2399 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2401 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2402 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2403 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2404 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2406 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2408 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2409 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2410 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2411 used in the resulting Makefile.
2413 New test-suite features
2414 -----------------------
2416 New modularization of test suite
2418 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2419 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2420 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2421 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2422 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2423 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2424 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2425 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2427 New testing of emacs interface
2429 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2430 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2431 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2432 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2433 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2434 database via the FCC setting.
2439 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2441 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2442 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2443 persistent error of the form:
2445 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2447 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2448 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2450 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2452 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2453 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2454 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2456 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2458 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2459 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2460 parsing the notmuch results).
2462 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2464 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2467 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2468 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2469 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2474 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2476 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2477 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2478 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2479 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2480 the emacs interface.
2482 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2484 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2485 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2486 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2488 Python-binding fixes
2489 --------------------
2491 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2493 Debian-specific fixes
2494 ---------------------
2496 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2498 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2499 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2500 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2503 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2504 ==========================
2509 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2511 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2512 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2513 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2514 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2516 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2518 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2519 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2520 want notmuch to crash.
2525 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2527 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2528 directory does not exist
2533 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2535 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2536 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2538 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2539 ========================
2541 New command-line features
2542 -------------------------
2544 User-configurable tags for new messages
2546 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2547 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2548 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2549 to specify this value.
2551 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2553 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2554 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2555 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2557 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2559 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2560 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2562 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2564 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2565 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2566 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2567 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2568 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2571 Indication of author names that match a search
2573 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2574 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2575 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2576 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2577 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2578 messages in the thread are listed first.
2580 New: Python bindings
2581 --------------------
2583 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2584 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2585 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2586 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2588 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2589 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2590 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2593 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2594 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2595 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2597 Emacs interface improvements
2598 ----------------------------
2600 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2602 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2603 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2604 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2605 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2606 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2607 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2608 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2609 but without any of the disadvantages).
2611 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2612 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2613 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2616 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2617 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2618 instead running something like:
2620 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2622 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2623 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2624 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2627 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2629 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2630 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2631 tweaked by the user.
2633 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2634 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2635 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2638 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2639 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2640 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2643 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2645 This support currently relies on an external program,
2646 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2647 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2648 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2649 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2650 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2653 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2654 notmuch) is available via:
2656 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2658 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2659 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2660 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2662 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2664 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2665 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2666 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2667 making this automatic in a future release.
2669 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2671 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2672 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2673 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2674 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2675 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2676 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2679 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2681 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2682 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2683 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2685 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2687 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2688 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2689 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2691 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2692 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2693 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2694 other representation.
2696 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2697 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2700 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2702 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2703 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2704 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2706 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2707 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2708 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2710 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2712 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2713 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2714 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2715 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2716 to display the search result.
2718 More flexible handling of header visibility
2720 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2721 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2722 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2723 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2724 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2725 with the 'h' keybinding.
2727 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2728 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2729 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2731 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2733 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2735 Customizable formatting of search results
2737 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2738 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2739 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2741 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2743 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2745 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2750 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2752 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2753 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2754 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2755 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2761 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2763 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2764 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2766 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2768 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2769 accept are now all accepted.
2774 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2776 Better display of output from failed tests
2778 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2779 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2781 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2782 ========================
2784 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2785 detailed release notes this time!
2787 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2788 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2790 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2791 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2792 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2793 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2800 Better guessing of From: header
2802 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2803 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2804 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2805 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2806 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2809 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2811 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2812 guaranteed to match all messages.
2814 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2816 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2817 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2818 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2819 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2820 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2823 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2826 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2827 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2828 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2829 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2834 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2836 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2837 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2838 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2839 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2841 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2843 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2845 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2846 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2847 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2849 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2851 Previously, the user might see:
2853 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2857 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2859 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2860 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2861 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2862 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2864 Emacs client features
2865 ---------------------
2867 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2869 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2870 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2871 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2872 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2873 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2875 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2878 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2879 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2880 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2881 search with the '*' binding.
2883 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2885 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2886 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2889 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2891 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2892 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2893 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2895 Build-system features
2896 ---------------------
2898 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2900 Add support to configure for many standard options
2902 We include actual support for:
2904 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2906 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2908 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2909 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2911 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2912 separate "make install-emacs"
2914 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2916 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2917 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2918 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2920 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2923 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2924 ========================
2926 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2928 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2929 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2931 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2932 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2933 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2934 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2935 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2936 tags from messages in a thread.
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