1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
8 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
9 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
10 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
11 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
12 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
13 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
14 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
15 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
21 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
23 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
24 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
25 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
26 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
27 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
28 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
31 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
33 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
34 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
35 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
36 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
39 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
41 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
42 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
43 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
44 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
45 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
46 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
47 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
52 Notmuch database upgrade
54 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
55 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
56 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
57 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
58 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
59 released version of Notmuch before now.
61 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
63 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
64 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
65 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
66 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
68 Message header parsing changes
70 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
71 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
72 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
73 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
74 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
75 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
77 Command-Line Interface
78 ----------------------
80 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
82 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
84 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
86 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
88 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
90 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
91 user does not want it.
98 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
99 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
100 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
101 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
102 `~/.emacs` with these.
104 Changed format for saved searches
106 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
107 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
108 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
109 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
112 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
113 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
114 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
115 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
117 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
118 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
119 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
121 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
122 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
123 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
124 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
125 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
127 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
129 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
130 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
131 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
133 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
135 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
136 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
137 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
138 message had been unread).
140 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
141 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
142 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
143 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
145 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
146 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
147 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
149 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
150 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
151 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
152 to tags already present.
156 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
157 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
158 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
159 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
160 these differ from each other.
161 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
163 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
165 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
166 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
167 for these Emacs versions.
169 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
171 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
172 newlines before calling notmuch count.
174 Bug fixes for sender identities
176 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
177 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
178 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
180 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
182 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
183 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
184 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
185 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
190 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
191 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
193 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
194 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
195 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
196 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
198 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
199 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
200 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
201 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
202 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
204 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
206 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
207 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
209 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
210 =========================
212 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
213 ---------------------------------------
215 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
216 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
217 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
218 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
219 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
220 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
221 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
225 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
226 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
228 Command-Line Interface
229 ----------------------
231 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
233 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
234 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
235 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
236 print for each message.
238 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
239 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
240 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
241 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
243 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
245 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
246 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
247 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
249 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
251 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
252 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
253 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
254 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
256 `notmuch compact` command
258 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
259 functionality through a more convenient interface than
260 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
261 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
262 move the compacted database into place.
267 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
269 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
270 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
271 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
272 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
273 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
274 and multiple threads.
278 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
280 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
281 search, show and tree mode itself)
283 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
286 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
287 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
289 Customising `notmuch-tree`
291 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
292 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
293 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
294 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
295 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
296 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
297 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
299 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
301 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
302 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
303 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
304 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
305 thread when the search was performed.
307 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
309 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
310 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
311 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
313 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
315 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
316 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
319 Built-in help improvements
321 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
322 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
323 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
325 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
327 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
328 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
329 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
331 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
333 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
334 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
336 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
338 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
339 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
340 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
341 to move some of them to the common keymap.
343 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
345 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
346 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
347 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
348 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
350 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
352 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
353 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
354 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
356 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
358 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
359 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
360 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
362 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
364 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
365 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
366 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
367 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
368 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
370 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
372 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
373 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
374 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
375 the body part of the message.
380 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
381 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
382 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
384 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
385 =========================
387 Command-Line Interface
388 ----------------------
390 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
392 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
393 folder and notmuch index.
395 `notmuch count --batch` option
397 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
398 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
400 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
402 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
403 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
404 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
407 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
409 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
410 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
411 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
412 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
413 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
416 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
418 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
419 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
421 Top level option to specify configuration file
423 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
424 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
426 Bash command-line completion
428 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
429 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
430 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
431 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
432 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
433 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
434 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
435 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
436 bash-completion package.
438 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
443 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
445 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
446 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
447 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
448 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
449 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
450 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
451 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
452 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
454 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
456 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
457 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
458 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
460 Key bindings for next/previous thread
462 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
463 previous thread in the search results.
465 Better handling of errors in search buffers
467 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
468 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
470 Faster search and show
472 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
473 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
474 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
475 threads should show faster.
479 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
480 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
481 in question was now removed from this release.
486 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
487 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
492 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
494 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
495 ===========================
500 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
502 Internal test framework changes
503 -------------------------------
505 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
508 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
509 ===========================
511 Internal test framework changes
512 -------------------------------
514 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
515 build failures in non-interactive environments.
517 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
518 =========================
523 Date range search support
525 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
526 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
527 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
528 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
529 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
532 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
534 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
535 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
536 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
537 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
538 but may be removed in a future release.
540 Command-Line Interface
541 ----------------------
543 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
545 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
546 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
548 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
550 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
551 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
552 officially deprecated.
554 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
556 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
557 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
558 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
560 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
562 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
563 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
566 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
567 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
570 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
572 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
573 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
574 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
576 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
578 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
579 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
580 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
582 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
584 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
585 output separated by null characters rather than newline
586 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
587 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
592 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
594 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
595 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
596 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
597 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
599 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
601 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
602 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
603 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
604 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
605 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
606 the behavior of this, see
607 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
608 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
610 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
611 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
612 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
614 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
616 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
617 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
620 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
622 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
623 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
624 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
625 simply displayed in place of the message.
627 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
629 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
630 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
632 Improved text/calendar content handling
634 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
635 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
636 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
637 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
639 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
641 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
642 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
643 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
644 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
646 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
648 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
649 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
650 for HTML email containing images.
652 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
654 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
656 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
658 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
661 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
663 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
664 the point where it was.
666 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
668 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
669 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
670 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
671 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
672 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
674 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
676 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
677 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
678 thread instead of the message id.
680 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
681 -----------------------------
683 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
684 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
685 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
686 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
687 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
688 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
689 further details and installation.
694 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
696 Internal test framework changes
697 -------------------------------
699 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
701 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
702 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
703 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
704 can result in buggy behavior.
706 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
707 =========================
712 Maildir tag synchronization
714 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
715 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
716 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
717 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
718 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
719 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
722 Command-Line Interface
723 ----------------------
725 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
726 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
727 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
728 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
729 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
735 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
737 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
739 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
740 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
741 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
743 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
745 It is now possible to embed newlines in
746 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
749 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
751 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
752 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
753 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
754 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
755 inside the result or message.
757 Search now uses the JSON format internally
759 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
760 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
762 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
763 user-specified formatting
765 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
766 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
767 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
768 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
769 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
771 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
772 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
774 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
775 ===========================
780 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
781 compilation error for this contrib package.
783 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
784 ===========================
789 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
791 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
792 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
793 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
794 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
796 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
797 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
800 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
801 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
802 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
803 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
806 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
808 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
811 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
812 =========================
814 Command-Line Interface
815 ----------------------
819 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
820 for a reply message and full information about the original message
821 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
822 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
824 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
825 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
826 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
827 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
831 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
832 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
834 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
835 tag in your query, for example:
837 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
839 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
840 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
842 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
843 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
845 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
847 Raw show format changes
849 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
850 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
851 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
852 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
853 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
854 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
855 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
856 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
858 Listing configuration items
860 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
866 Changes to tagging interface
868 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
869 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
870 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
871 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
872 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
873 for more information.
875 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
876 may need to update in custom configurations.
878 Reply improvement using the JSON format
880 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
881 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
882 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
883 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
886 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
887 -----------------------------
889 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
890 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
891 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
892 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
893 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
894 contrib/ from now on.
899 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
900 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
902 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
903 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
905 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
906 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
907 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
909 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
910 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
912 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
913 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
914 returning the new database object or directory object.
921 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
922 compatible with go 1.
924 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
925 =========================
927 Command-Line Interface
928 ----------------------
932 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
933 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
934 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
935 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
937 Mail store folder/file ignore
939 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
940 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
941 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
943 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
944 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
946 Unified help and manual pages
948 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
949 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
952 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
954 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
955 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
963 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
964 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
965 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
966 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
968 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
970 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
971 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
973 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
976 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
977 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
978 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
980 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
982 should be changed to:
984 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
986 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
988 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
989 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
991 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
993 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
994 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
995 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
996 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
997 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
998 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1002 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1003 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1004 of Mailing List Archives.
1006 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1008 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1009 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1012 Show view archiving key binding changes
1014 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1015 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1016 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1017 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1018 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1021 Support text/calendar MIME type
1023 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1026 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1028 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1029 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1030 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1031 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1033 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1035 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1036 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1037 messages blue by default in the search view.
1041 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1042 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1049 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1052 Python bindings changes
1053 -----------------------
1055 Python 3.2 compatibility
1057 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1059 Added missing unicode conversions
1061 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1062 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1063 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1068 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1070 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1071 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1072 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1073 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1074 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1076 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1077 ===========================
1082 Fix error handling in python bindings
1084 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1085 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1086 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1087 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1089 Quote MML tags in replies
1091 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1092 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1093 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1094 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1095 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1096 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1097 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1098 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1100 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1101 =========================
1103 Command-Line Interface
1104 ----------------------
1108 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1109 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1110 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1111 importing new messages into the database.
1113 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1115 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1116 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1117 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1122 Automatic tag query optimization
1124 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1125 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1126 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1128 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1130 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1131 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1132 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1137 Reduction of memory leaks
1139 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1140 and fixed in this release.
1147 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1148 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1149 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1152 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1154 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1155 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1156 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1159 Improvements in saved search management
1161 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1162 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1163 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1165 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1167 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1168 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1169 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1171 New face for crypto parts headers
1173 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1174 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1175 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1178 Use space as default thousands separator
1180 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1181 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1182 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1184 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1185 buttonized id: links
1187 New function notmuch-show-advance
1189 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1190 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1191 be bound to SPC with:
1193 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1195 Various performance improvements
1200 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1201 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1204 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1205 ===========================
1210 Fix crash in python bindings
1212 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1213 for some, but not all users.
1215 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1216 ===========================
1221 Fix `--help` argument
1223 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1224 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1225 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1227 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1228 =========================
1230 New build and testing features
1231 ------------------------------
1233 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1234 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1235 prerequisites is improved.
1237 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1239 New command-line features
1240 -------------------------
1242 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1244 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1245 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1248 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1250 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1251 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1252 favour of using stdout.
1254 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1256 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1257 limit the number of results shown.
1259 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1261 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1262 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1265 New emacs UI features
1266 ---------------------
1268 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1270 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1271 starting with "tag:".
1273 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1275 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1276 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1278 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1280 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1282 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1284 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1285 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1290 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1292 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1294 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1295 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1296 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1297 requires a database rebuild:
1299 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1300 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1302 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1304 New collection of add-on tools
1305 ------------------------------
1307 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1308 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1309 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1312 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1314 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1315 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1316 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1318 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1319 ========================
1321 New, general features
1322 ---------------------
1324 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1326 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1327 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1328 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1329 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1330 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1337 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1338 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1340 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1344 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1345 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1346 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1349 Python bindings changes
1350 -----------------------
1352 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1354 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1355 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1356 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1357 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1358 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1359 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1361 Ruby bindings changes
1362 ---------------------
1364 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1365 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1366 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1367 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1372 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1374 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1375 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1377 Reply formatting cleanup
1378 ------------------------
1380 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1381 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1383 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1384 ========================
1386 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1388 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1389 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1390 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1391 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1394 Improved Build system portability
1396 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1397 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1398 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1400 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1402 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1404 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1406 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1407 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1408 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1410 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1411 ========================
1413 Vim interface improvements
1414 --------------------------
1416 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1418 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1419 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1420 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1421 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1422 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1424 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1426 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1427 * fix compose temp file name
1429 Python Bindings changes
1430 -----------------------
1432 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1434 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1435 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1437 Build-System improvements
1438 -------------------------
1440 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1442 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1445 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1446 ==========================
1451 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1453 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1454 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1456 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1457 =======================
1459 New, general features
1460 ---------------------
1462 Folder-based searching
1464 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1465 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1466 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1470 For example, one might use things such as:
1476 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1477 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1479 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1480 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1481 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1482 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1484 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1485 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1486 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1489 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1490 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1492 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1494 Support for PGP/MIME
1496 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1497 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1498 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1500 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1502 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1503 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1505 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1506 notmuch will receive these tags.
1508 New command-line features
1509 -------------------------
1511 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1513 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1514 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1516 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1518 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1519 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1520 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1522 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1524 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1525 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1526 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1527 which parts a signature part applies).
1529 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1531 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1532 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1533 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1534 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1535 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1538 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1540 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1541 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1542 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1543 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1544 by translating it internally to the new call.
1546 Performance improvements
1547 ------------------------
1549 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1551 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1552 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1553 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1555 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1556 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1558 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1560 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1561 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1562 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1564 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1565 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1566 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1567 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1569 Faster initial indexing
1571 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1572 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1573 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1575 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1577 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1578 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1579 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1580 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1582 New emacs-interface features
1583 ----------------------------
1585 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1587 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1588 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1589 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1590 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1591 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1592 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1594 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1596 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1597 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1598 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1599 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1601 User-selectable From address
1603 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1604 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1605 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1606 will prompt for the from address to use.
1608 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1609 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1610 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1612 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1613 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1614 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1617 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1619 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1620 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1622 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1624 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1626 ----- Original Message -----
1628 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1629 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1630 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1631 citations work much like conventional citations.
1633 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1635 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1636 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1637 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1638 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1639 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1641 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1642 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1644 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1646 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1647 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1648 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1650 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1652 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1653 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1654 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1655 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1656 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1658 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1660 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1663 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1665 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1667 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1669 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1672 Vim interface improvements
1673 --------------------------
1675 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1677 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1678 * Implementing archive in show view
1679 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1680 * Add delete commands
1683 Bindings improvements
1684 ---------------------
1686 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1688 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1689 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1691 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1693 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1697 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1698 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1699 `list(Messages)` works now
1700 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1702 These allow, for example:
1704 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1706 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1708 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1714 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1716 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1719 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1721 New build-system features
1722 -------------------------
1724 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1726 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1727 the configure script from some other directory:
1734 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1736 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1737 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1738 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1739 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1740 manual invocation of configure.
1742 New test-suite feature
1743 ----------------------
1745 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1747 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1748 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1749 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1750 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1751 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1754 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1756 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1757 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1758 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1759 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1760 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1761 are updated to take advantage of this.
1763 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1765 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1766 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1767 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1768 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1774 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1776 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1777 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1778 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1780 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1782 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1784 to:user@elsewhere.com
1786 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1788 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1790 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1792 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1793 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1794 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1797 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1798 from the Received headers in some cases
1800 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1801 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1803 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1805 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1807 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1809 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1810 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1811 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1813 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1814 -------------------------
1816 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1818 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1819 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1820 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1822 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1824 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1825 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1826 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1829 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1831 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1832 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1833 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1834 fixed to avoid this bug.
1836 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1838 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1839 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1841 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1842 ========================
1844 New, general features
1845 ---------------------
1847 Maildir-flag synchronization
1849 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1850 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1859 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1861 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1862 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1863 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1864 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1866 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1867 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1868 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1869 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1872 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1874 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1875 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1876 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1878 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1879 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1881 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1882 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1884 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1885 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1886 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1888 New library features
1889 --------------------
1891 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1893 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1894 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1895 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1896 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1898 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1899 message with the new function:
1901 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1903 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1904 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1905 over all available filenames for a given message.
1907 New command-line features
1908 -------------------------
1910 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1912 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1913 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1914 access to the mail store itself.
1916 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1917 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1918 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1919 name of a script containing:
1921 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1923 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1924 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1930 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1932 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1934 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1936 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1937 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1938 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1939 now produces nothing).
1941 Emacs interface improvements
1942 ----------------------------
1944 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1946 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1948 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1950 Display current thread subject in a header line
1952 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1954 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1956 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1957 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1958 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1959 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1960 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1961 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1962 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1964 Vim interface improvements
1965 --------------------------
1967 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1969 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1970 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1976 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1978 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1979 ========================
1981 New command-line features
1982 -------------------------
1984 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1986 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1987 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1988 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1990 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1991 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1992 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1993 scripts. For example:
1995 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1996 <operations-on> "$file"
1999 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2001 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2002 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2003 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2004 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2005 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2006 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2008 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2010 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2011 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2012 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2013 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2015 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2017 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2018 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2019 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2020 default rather than Bcc.
2022 New library features
2023 --------------------
2025 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2027 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2028 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2033 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2035 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2036 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2037 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2038 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2039 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2040 notmuch customize interface.
2042 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2044 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2045 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2046 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2047 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2049 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2051 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2052 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2053 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2054 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2056 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2058 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2059 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2060 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2061 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2062 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2063 notmuch customize interface.
2065 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2067 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2068 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2069 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2070 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2071 notmuch customize interface.
2073 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2075 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2076 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2077 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2078 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2081 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2083 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2084 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2085 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2088 New build-system features
2089 -------------------------
2091 Various portability fixes have been applied
2093 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2094 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2095 more portable than ever before.
2097 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2099 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2100 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2101 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2103 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2104 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2105 automatically run ldconfig.
2107 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2108 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2109 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2111 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2112 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2113 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2114 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2116 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2118 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2119 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2120 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2121 used in the resulting Makefile.
2123 New test-suite features
2124 -----------------------
2126 New modularization of test suite
2128 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2129 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2130 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2131 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2132 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2133 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2134 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2135 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2137 New testing of emacs interface
2139 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2140 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2141 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2142 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2143 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2144 database via the FCC setting.
2149 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2151 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2152 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2153 persistent error of the form:
2155 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2157 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2158 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2160 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2162 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2163 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2164 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2166 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2168 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2169 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2170 parsing the notmuch results).
2172 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2174 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2177 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2178 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2179 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2184 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2186 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2187 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2188 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2189 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2190 the emacs interface.
2192 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2194 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2195 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2196 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2198 Python-binding fixes
2199 --------------------
2201 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2203 Debian-specific fixes
2204 ---------------------
2206 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2208 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2209 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2210 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2213 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2214 ==========================
2219 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2221 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2222 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2223 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2224 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2226 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2228 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2229 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2230 want notmuch to crash.
2235 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2237 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2238 directory does not exist
2243 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2245 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2246 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2248 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2249 ========================
2251 New command-line features
2252 -------------------------
2254 User-configurable tags for new messages
2256 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2257 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2258 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2259 to specify this value.
2261 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2263 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2264 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2265 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2267 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2269 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2270 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2272 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2274 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2275 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2276 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2277 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2278 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2281 Indication of author names that match a search
2283 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2284 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2285 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2286 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2287 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2288 messages in the thread are listed first.
2290 New: Python bindings
2291 --------------------
2293 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2294 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2295 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2296 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2298 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2299 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2300 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2303 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2304 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2305 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2307 Emacs interface improvements
2308 ----------------------------
2310 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2312 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2313 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2314 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2315 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2316 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2317 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2318 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2319 but without any of the disadvantages).
2321 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2322 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2323 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2326 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2327 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2328 instead running something like:
2330 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2332 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2333 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2334 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2337 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2339 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2340 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2341 tweaked by the user.
2343 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2344 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2345 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2348 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2349 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2350 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2353 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2355 This support currently relies on an external program,
2356 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2357 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2358 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2359 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2360 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2363 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2364 notmuch) is available via:
2366 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2368 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2369 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2370 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2372 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2374 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2375 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2376 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2377 making this automatic in a future release.
2379 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2381 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2382 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2383 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2384 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2385 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2386 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2389 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2391 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2392 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2393 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2395 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2397 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2398 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2399 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2401 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2402 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2403 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2404 other representation.
2406 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2407 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2410 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2412 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2413 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2414 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2416 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2417 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2418 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2420 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2422 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2423 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2424 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2425 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2426 to display the search result.
2428 More flexible handling of header visibility
2430 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2431 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2432 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2433 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2434 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2435 with the 'h' keybinding.
2437 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2438 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2439 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2441 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2443 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2445 Customizable formatting of search results
2447 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2448 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2449 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2451 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2453 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2455 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2460 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2462 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2463 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2464 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2465 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2471 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2473 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2474 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2476 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2478 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2479 accept are now all accepted.
2484 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2486 Better display of output from failed tests
2488 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2489 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2491 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2492 ========================
2494 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2495 detailed release notes this time!
2497 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2498 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2500 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2501 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2502 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2503 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2510 Better guessing of From: header
2512 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2513 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2514 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2515 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2516 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2519 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2521 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2522 guaranteed to match all messages.
2524 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2526 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2527 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2528 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2529 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2530 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2533 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2536 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2537 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2538 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2539 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2544 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2546 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2547 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2548 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2549 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2551 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2553 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2555 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2556 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2557 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2559 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2561 Previously, the user might see:
2563 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2567 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2569 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2570 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2571 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2572 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2574 Emacs client features
2575 ---------------------
2577 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2579 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2580 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2581 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2582 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2583 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2585 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2588 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2589 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2590 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2591 search with the '*' binding.
2593 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2595 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2596 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2599 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2601 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2602 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2603 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2605 Build-system features
2606 ---------------------
2608 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2610 Add support to configure for many standard options
2612 We include actual support for:
2614 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2616 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2618 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2619 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2621 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2622 separate "make install-emacs"
2624 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2626 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2627 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2628 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2630 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2633 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2634 ========================
2636 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2638 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2639 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2641 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2642 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2643 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2644 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2645 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2646 tags from messages in a thread.
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