1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
9 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
11 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
13 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
20 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
21 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
22 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
23 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
24 `~/.emacs` with these.
26 Changed format for saved searches
28 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
29 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
30 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
31 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
34 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
35 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
36 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
37 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
39 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
40 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
41 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
43 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
44 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
45 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
46 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
47 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
49 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
51 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
52 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
53 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
55 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
57 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
58 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
59 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
60 message had been unread).
62 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
63 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
64 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
65 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
67 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
68 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
69 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
71 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
72 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
73 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
74 to tags already present.
78 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
79 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
80 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
81 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
82 these differ from each other.
83 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
85 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
87 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
88 newlines before calling notmuch count.
90 Bug fixes for sender identities
92 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
93 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
94 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
99 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
100 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
102 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
103 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
104 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
105 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
107 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
108 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
109 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
110 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
111 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
113 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
115 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
116 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
118 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
119 =========================
121 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
122 ---------------------------------------
124 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
125 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
126 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
127 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
128 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
129 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
130 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
134 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
135 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
137 Command-Line Interface
138 ----------------------
140 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
142 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
143 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
144 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
145 print for each message.
147 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
148 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
149 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
150 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
152 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
154 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
155 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
156 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
158 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
160 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
161 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
162 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
163 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
165 `notmuch compact` command
167 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
168 functionality through a more convenient interface than
169 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
170 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
171 move the compacted database into place.
176 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
178 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
179 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
180 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
181 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
182 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
183 and multiple threads.
187 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
189 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
190 search, show and tree mode itself)
192 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
195 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
196 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
198 Customising `notmuch-tree`
200 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
201 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
202 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
203 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
204 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
205 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
206 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
208 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
210 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
211 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
212 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
213 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
214 thread when the search was performed.
216 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
218 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
219 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
220 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
222 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
224 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
225 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
228 Built-in help improvements
230 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
231 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
232 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
234 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
236 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
237 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
238 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
240 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
242 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
243 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
245 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
247 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
248 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
249 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
250 to move some of them to the common keymap.
252 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
254 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
255 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
256 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
257 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
259 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
261 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
262 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
263 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
265 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
267 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
268 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
269 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
271 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
273 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
274 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
275 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
276 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
277 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
279 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
281 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
282 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
283 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
284 the body part of the message.
289 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
290 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
291 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
293 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
294 =========================
296 Command-Line Interface
297 ----------------------
299 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
301 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
302 folder and notmuch index.
304 `notmuch count --batch` option
306 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
307 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
309 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
311 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
312 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
313 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
316 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
318 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
319 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
320 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
321 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
322 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
325 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
327 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
328 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
330 Top level option to specify configuration file
332 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
333 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
335 Bash command-line completion
337 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
338 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
339 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
340 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
341 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
342 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
343 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
344 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
345 bash-completion package.
347 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
352 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
354 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
355 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
356 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
357 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
358 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
359 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
360 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
361 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
363 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
365 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
366 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
367 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
369 Key bindings for next/previous thread
371 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
372 previous thread in the search results.
374 Better handling of errors in search buffers
376 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
377 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
379 Faster search and show
381 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
382 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
383 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
384 threads should show faster.
388 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
389 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
390 in question was now removed from this release.
395 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
396 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
401 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
403 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
404 ===========================
409 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
411 Internal test framework changes
412 -------------------------------
414 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
417 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
418 ===========================
420 Internal test framework changes
421 -------------------------------
423 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
424 build failures in non-interactive environments.
426 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
427 =========================
432 Date range search support
434 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
435 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
436 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
437 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
438 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
441 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
443 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
444 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
445 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
446 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
447 but may be removed in a future release.
449 Command-Line Interface
450 ----------------------
452 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
454 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
455 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
457 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
459 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
460 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
461 officially deprecated.
463 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
465 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
466 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
467 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
469 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
471 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
472 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
475 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
476 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
479 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
481 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
482 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
483 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
485 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
487 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
488 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
489 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
491 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
493 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
494 output separated by null characters rather than newline
495 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
496 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
501 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
503 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
504 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
505 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
506 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
508 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
510 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
511 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
512 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
513 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
514 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
515 the behavior of this, see
516 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
517 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
519 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
520 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
521 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
523 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
525 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
526 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
529 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
531 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
532 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
533 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
534 simply displayed in place of the message.
536 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
538 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
539 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
541 Improved text/calendar content handling
543 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
544 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
545 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
546 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
548 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
550 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
551 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
552 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
553 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
555 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
557 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
558 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
559 for HTML email containing images.
561 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
563 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
565 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
567 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
570 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
572 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
573 the point where it was.
575 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
577 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
578 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
579 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
580 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
581 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
583 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
585 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
586 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
587 thread instead of the message id.
589 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
590 -----------------------------
592 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
593 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
594 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
595 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
596 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
597 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
598 further details and installation.
603 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
605 Internal test framework changes
606 -------------------------------
608 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
610 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
611 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
612 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
613 can result in buggy behavior.
615 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
616 =========================
621 Maildir tag synchronization
623 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
624 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
625 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
626 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
627 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
628 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
631 Command-Line Interface
632 ----------------------
634 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
635 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
636 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
637 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
638 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
644 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
646 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
648 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
649 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
650 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
652 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
654 It is now possible to embed newlines in
655 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
658 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
660 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
661 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
662 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
663 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
664 inside the result or message.
666 Search now uses the JSON format internally
668 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
669 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
671 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
672 user-specified formatting
674 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
675 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
676 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
677 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
678 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
680 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
681 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
683 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
684 ===========================
689 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
690 compilation error for this contrib package.
692 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
693 ===========================
698 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
700 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
701 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
702 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
703 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
705 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
706 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
709 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
710 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
711 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
712 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
715 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
717 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
720 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
721 =========================
723 Command-Line Interface
724 ----------------------
728 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
729 for a reply message and full information about the original message
730 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
731 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
733 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
734 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
735 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
736 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
740 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
741 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
743 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
744 tag in your query, for example:
746 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
748 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
749 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
751 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
752 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
754 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
756 Raw show format changes
758 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
759 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
760 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
761 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
762 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
763 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
764 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
765 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
767 Listing configuration items
769 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
775 Changes to tagging interface
777 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
778 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
779 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
780 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
781 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
782 for more information.
784 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
785 may need to update in custom configurations.
787 Reply improvement using the JSON format
789 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
790 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
791 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
792 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
795 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
796 -----------------------------
798 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
799 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
800 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
801 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
802 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
803 contrib/ from now on.
808 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
809 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
811 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
812 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
814 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
815 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
816 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
818 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
819 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
821 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
822 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
823 returning the new database object or directory object.
830 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
831 compatible with go 1.
833 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
834 =========================
836 Command-Line Interface
837 ----------------------
841 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
842 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
843 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
844 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
846 Mail store folder/file ignore
848 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
849 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
850 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
852 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
853 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
855 Unified help and manual pages
857 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
858 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
861 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
863 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
864 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
872 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
873 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
874 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
875 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
877 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
879 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
880 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
882 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
885 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
886 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
887 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
889 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
891 should be changed to:
893 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
895 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
897 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
898 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
900 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
902 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
903 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
904 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
905 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
906 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
907 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
911 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
912 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
913 of Mailing List Archives.
915 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
917 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
918 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
921 Show view archiving key binding changes
923 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
924 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
925 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
926 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
927 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
930 Support text/calendar MIME type
932 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
935 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
937 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
938 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
939 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
940 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
942 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
944 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
945 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
946 messages blue by default in the search view.
950 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
951 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
958 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
961 Python bindings changes
962 -----------------------
964 Python 3.2 compatibility
966 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
968 Added missing unicode conversions
970 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
971 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
972 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
977 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
979 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
980 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
981 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
982 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
983 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
985 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
986 ===========================
991 Fix error handling in python bindings
993 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
994 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
995 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
996 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
998 Quote MML tags in replies
1000 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1001 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1002 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1003 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1004 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1005 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1006 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1007 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1009 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1010 =========================
1012 Command-Line Interface
1013 ----------------------
1017 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1018 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1019 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1020 importing new messages into the database.
1022 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1024 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1025 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1026 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1031 Automatic tag query optimization
1033 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1034 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1035 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1037 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1039 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1040 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1041 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1046 Reduction of memory leaks
1048 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1049 and fixed in this release.
1056 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1057 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1058 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1061 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1063 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1064 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1065 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1068 Improvements in saved search management
1070 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1071 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1072 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1074 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1076 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1077 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1078 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1080 New face for crypto parts headers
1082 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1083 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1084 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1087 Use space as default thousands separator
1089 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1090 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1091 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1093 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1094 buttonized id: links
1096 New function notmuch-show-advance
1098 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1099 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1100 be bound to SPC with:
1102 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1104 Various performance improvements
1109 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1110 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1113 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1114 ===========================
1119 Fix crash in python bindings
1121 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1122 for some, but not all users.
1124 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1125 ===========================
1130 Fix `--help` argument
1132 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1133 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1134 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1136 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1137 =========================
1139 New build and testing features
1140 ------------------------------
1142 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1143 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1144 prerequisites is improved.
1146 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1148 New command-line features
1149 -------------------------
1151 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1153 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1154 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1157 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1159 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1160 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1161 favour of using stdout.
1163 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1165 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1166 limit the number of results shown.
1168 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1170 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1171 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1174 New emacs UI features
1175 ---------------------
1177 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1179 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1180 starting with "tag:".
1182 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1184 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1185 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1187 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1189 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1191 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1193 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1194 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1199 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1201 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1203 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1204 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1205 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1206 requires a database rebuild:
1208 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1209 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1211 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1213 New collection of add-on tools
1214 ------------------------------
1216 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1217 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1218 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1221 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1223 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1224 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1225 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1227 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1228 ========================
1230 New, general features
1231 ---------------------
1233 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1235 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1236 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1237 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1238 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1239 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1246 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1247 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1249 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1253 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1254 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1255 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1258 Python bindings changes
1259 -----------------------
1261 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1263 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1264 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1265 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1266 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1267 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1268 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1270 Ruby bindings changes
1271 ---------------------
1273 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1274 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1275 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1276 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1281 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1283 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1284 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1286 Reply formatting cleanup
1287 ------------------------
1289 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1290 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1292 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1293 ========================
1295 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1297 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1298 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1299 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1300 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1303 Improved Build system portability
1305 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1306 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1307 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1309 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1311 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1313 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1315 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1316 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1317 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1319 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1320 ========================
1322 Vim interface improvements
1323 --------------------------
1325 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1327 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1328 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1329 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1330 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1331 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1333 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1335 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1336 * fix compose temp file name
1338 Python Bindings changes
1339 -----------------------
1341 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1343 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1344 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1346 Build-System improvements
1347 -------------------------
1349 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1351 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1354 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1355 ==========================
1360 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1362 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1363 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1365 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1366 =======================
1368 New, general features
1369 ---------------------
1371 Folder-based searching
1373 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1374 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1375 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1379 For example, one might use things such as:
1385 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1386 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1388 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1389 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1390 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1391 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1393 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1394 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1395 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1398 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1399 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1401 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1403 Support for PGP/MIME
1405 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1406 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1407 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1409 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1411 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1412 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1414 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1415 notmuch will receive these tags.
1417 New command-line features
1418 -------------------------
1420 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1422 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1423 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1425 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1427 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1428 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1429 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1431 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1433 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1434 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1435 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1436 which parts a signature part applies).
1438 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1440 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1441 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1442 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1443 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1444 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1447 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1449 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1450 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1451 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1452 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1453 by translating it internally to the new call.
1455 Performance improvements
1456 ------------------------
1458 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1460 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1461 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1462 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1464 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1465 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1467 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1469 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1470 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1471 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1473 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1474 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1475 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1476 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1478 Faster initial indexing
1480 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1481 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1482 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1484 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1486 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1487 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1488 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1489 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1491 New emacs-interface features
1492 ----------------------------
1494 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1496 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1497 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1498 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1499 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1500 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1501 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1503 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1505 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1506 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1507 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1508 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1510 User-selectable From address
1512 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1513 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1514 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1515 will prompt for the from address to use.
1517 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1518 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1519 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1521 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1522 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1523 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1526 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1528 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1529 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1531 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1533 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1535 ----- Original Message -----
1537 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1538 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1539 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1540 citations work much like conventional citations.
1542 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1544 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1545 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1546 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1547 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1548 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1550 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1551 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1553 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1555 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1556 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1557 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1559 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1561 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1562 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1563 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1564 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1565 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1567 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1569 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1572 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1574 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1576 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1578 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1581 Vim interface improvements
1582 --------------------------
1584 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1586 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1587 * Implementing archive in show view
1588 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1589 * Add delete commands
1592 Bindings improvements
1593 ---------------------
1595 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1597 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1598 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1600 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1602 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1606 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1607 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1608 `list(Messages)` works now
1609 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1611 These allow, for example:
1613 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1615 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1617 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1623 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1625 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1628 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1630 New build-system features
1631 -------------------------
1633 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1635 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1636 the configure script from some other directory:
1643 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1645 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1646 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1647 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1648 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1649 manual invocation of configure.
1651 New test-suite feature
1652 ----------------------
1654 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1656 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1657 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1658 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1659 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1660 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1663 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1665 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1666 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1667 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1668 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1669 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1670 are updated to take advantage of this.
1672 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1674 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1675 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1676 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1677 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1683 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1685 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1686 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1687 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1689 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1691 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1693 to:user@elsewhere.com
1695 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1697 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1699 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1701 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1702 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1703 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1706 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1707 from the Received headers in some cases
1709 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1710 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1712 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1714 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1716 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1718 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1719 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1720 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1722 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1723 -------------------------
1725 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1727 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1728 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1729 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1731 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1733 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1734 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1735 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1738 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1740 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1741 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1742 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1743 fixed to avoid this bug.
1745 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1747 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1748 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1750 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1751 ========================
1753 New, general features
1754 ---------------------
1756 Maildir-flag synchronization
1758 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1759 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1768 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1770 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1771 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1772 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1773 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1775 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1776 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1777 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1778 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1781 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1783 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1784 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1785 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1787 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1788 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1790 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1791 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1793 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1794 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1795 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1797 New library features
1798 --------------------
1800 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1802 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1803 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1804 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1805 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1807 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1808 message with the new function:
1810 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1812 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1813 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1814 over all available filenames for a given message.
1816 New command-line features
1817 -------------------------
1819 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1821 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1822 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1823 access to the mail store itself.
1825 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1826 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1827 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1828 name of a script containing:
1830 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1832 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1833 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1839 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1841 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1843 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1845 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1846 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1847 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1848 now produces nothing).
1850 Emacs interface improvements
1851 ----------------------------
1853 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1855 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1857 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1859 Display current thread subject in a header line
1861 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1863 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1865 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1866 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1867 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1868 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1869 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1870 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1871 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1873 Vim interface improvements
1874 --------------------------
1876 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1878 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1879 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1885 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1887 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1888 ========================
1890 New command-line features
1891 -------------------------
1893 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1895 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1896 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1897 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1899 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1900 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1901 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1902 scripts. For example:
1904 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1905 <operations-on> "$file"
1908 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1910 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1911 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1912 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1913 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1914 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1915 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1917 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1919 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1920 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1921 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1922 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1924 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1926 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1927 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1928 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1929 default rather than Bcc.
1931 New library features
1932 --------------------
1934 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1936 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1937 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1942 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1944 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1945 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1946 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1947 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1948 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1949 notmuch customize interface.
1951 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1953 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1954 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1955 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1956 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1958 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1960 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1961 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1962 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1963 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1965 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1967 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1968 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1969 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1970 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1971 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1972 notmuch customize interface.
1974 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1976 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1977 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1978 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1979 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1980 notmuch customize interface.
1982 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1984 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1985 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1986 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1987 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1990 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1992 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1993 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1994 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1997 New build-system features
1998 -------------------------
2000 Various portability fixes have been applied
2002 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2003 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2004 more portable than ever before.
2006 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2008 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2009 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2010 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2012 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2013 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2014 automatically run ldconfig.
2016 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2017 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2018 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2020 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2021 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2022 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2023 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2025 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2027 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2028 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2029 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2030 used in the resulting Makefile.
2032 New test-suite features
2033 -----------------------
2035 New modularization of test suite
2037 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2038 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2039 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2040 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2041 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2042 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2043 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2044 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2046 New testing of emacs interface
2048 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2049 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2050 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2051 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2052 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2053 database via the FCC setting.
2058 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2060 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2061 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2062 persistent error of the form:
2064 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2066 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2067 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2069 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2071 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2072 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2073 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2075 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2077 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2078 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2079 parsing the notmuch results).
2081 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2083 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2086 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2087 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2088 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2093 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2095 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2096 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2097 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2098 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2099 the emacs interface.
2101 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2103 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2104 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2105 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2107 Python-binding fixes
2108 --------------------
2110 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2112 Debian-specific fixes
2113 ---------------------
2115 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2117 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2118 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2119 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2122 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2123 ==========================
2128 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2130 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2131 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2132 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2133 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2135 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2137 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2138 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2139 want notmuch to crash.
2144 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2146 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2147 directory does not exist
2152 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2154 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2155 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2157 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2158 ========================
2160 New command-line features
2161 -------------------------
2163 User-configurable tags for new messages
2165 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2166 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2167 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2168 to specify this value.
2170 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2172 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2173 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2174 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2176 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2178 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2179 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2181 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2183 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2184 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2185 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2186 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2187 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2190 Indication of author names that match a search
2192 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2193 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2194 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2195 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2196 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2197 messages in the thread are listed first.
2199 New: Python bindings
2200 --------------------
2202 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2203 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2204 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2205 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2207 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2208 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2209 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2212 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2213 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2214 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2216 Emacs interface improvements
2217 ----------------------------
2219 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2221 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2222 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2223 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2224 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2225 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2226 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2227 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2228 but without any of the disadvantages).
2230 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2231 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2232 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2235 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2236 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2237 instead running something like:
2239 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2241 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2242 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2243 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2246 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2248 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2249 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2250 tweaked by the user.
2252 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2253 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2254 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2257 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2258 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2259 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2262 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2264 This support currently relies on an external program,
2265 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2266 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2267 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2268 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2269 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2272 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2273 notmuch) is available via:
2275 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2277 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2278 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2279 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2281 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2283 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2284 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2285 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2286 making this automatic in a future release.
2288 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2290 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2291 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2292 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2293 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2294 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2295 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2298 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2300 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2301 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2302 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2304 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2306 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2307 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2308 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2310 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2311 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2312 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2313 other representation.
2315 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2316 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2319 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2321 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2322 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2323 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2325 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2326 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2327 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2329 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2331 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2332 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2333 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2334 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2335 to display the search result.
2337 More flexible handling of header visibility
2339 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2340 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2341 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2342 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2343 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2344 with the 'h' keybinding.
2346 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2347 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2348 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2350 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2352 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2354 Customizable formatting of search results
2356 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2357 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2358 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2360 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2362 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2364 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2369 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2371 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2372 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2373 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2374 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2380 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2382 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2383 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2385 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2387 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2388 accept are now all accepted.
2393 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2395 Better display of output from failed tests
2397 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2398 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2400 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2401 ========================
2403 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2404 detailed release notes this time!
2406 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2407 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2409 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2410 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2411 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2412 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2419 Better guessing of From: header
2421 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2422 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2423 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2424 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2425 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2428 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2430 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2431 guaranteed to match all messages.
2433 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2435 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2436 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2437 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2438 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2439 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2442 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2445 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2446 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2447 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2448 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2453 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2455 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2456 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2457 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2458 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2460 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2462 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2464 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2465 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2466 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2468 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2470 Previously, the user might see:
2472 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2476 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2478 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2479 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2480 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2481 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2483 Emacs client features
2484 ---------------------
2486 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2488 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2489 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2490 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2491 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2492 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2494 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2497 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2498 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2499 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2500 search with the '*' binding.
2502 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2504 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2505 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2508 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2510 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2511 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2512 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2514 Build-system features
2515 ---------------------
2517 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2519 Add support to configure for many standard options
2521 We include actual support for:
2523 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2525 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2527 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2528 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2530 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2531 separate "make install-emacs"
2533 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2535 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2536 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2537 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2539 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2542 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2543 ========================
2545 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2547 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2548 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2550 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2551 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2552 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2553 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2554 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2555 tags from messages in a thread.
2562 indent-tabs-mode: nil