1 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2 ========================
7 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
9 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
10 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
11 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
12 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
13 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
20 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
21 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
23 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
25 Python bindings changes
26 -----------------------
28 Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
34 Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic,
35 and add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError. Rename destroy
36 to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
39 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
40 ========================
42 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
44 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
45 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
46 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
47 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
50 Improved Build system portability
52 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
53 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
54 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
56 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
58 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
60 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
62 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
63 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
64 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
66 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
67 ========================
69 Vim interface improvements
70 --------------------------
72 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
74 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
75 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
76 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
77 * fix from list reformatting in search view
78 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
80 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
82 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
83 * fix compose temp file name
85 Python Bindings changes
86 -----------------------
88 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
90 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
91 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
93 Build-System improvments
94 ------------------------
96 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
98 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
101 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
102 ==========================
107 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
109 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
110 people running gcc 4.4.5.
112 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
113 =======================
114 New, general features
115 ---------------------
116 Folder-based searching
118 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
119 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
120 storage). The syntax is as follows:
124 For example, one might use things such as:
130 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
131 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
133 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
134 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
135 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
136 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
138 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
139 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
140 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
143 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
144 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
146 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
150 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
151 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
152 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
154 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
156 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
157 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
159 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
160 notmuch will receive these tags.
162 New command-line features
163 -------------------------
164 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
166 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
167 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
169 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
171 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
172 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
173 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
175 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
177 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
178 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
179 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
180 which parts a signature part applies).
182 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
184 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
185 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
186 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
187 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
188 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
191 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
193 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
194 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
195 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
196 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
197 by translating it internally to the new call.
199 Performance improvements
200 ------------------------
201 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
203 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
204 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
205 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
207 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
208 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
210 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
212 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
213 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
214 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
216 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
217 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
218 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
219 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
221 Faster initial indexing
223 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
224 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
225 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
227 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
229 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
230 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
231 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
232 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
234 New emacs-interface features
235 ----------------------------
237 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
239 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
240 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
241 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
242 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
243 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
244 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
246 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
248 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
249 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
250 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
251 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
253 User-selectable From address
255 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
256 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
257 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
258 will prompt for the from address to use.
260 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
261 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
262 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
264 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
265 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
266 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
269 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
271 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
272 its parent, the subject is not shown.
274 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
276 When a message contains a line looking something like:
278 ----- Original Message -----
280 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
281 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
282 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
283 citations work much like conventional citations.
285 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
287 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
288 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
289 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
290 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
291 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
293 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
294 Notmuch After Tag Hook
296 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
298 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
299 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
300 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
302 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
304 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
305 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
306 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
307 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
308 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
310 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
312 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
315 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
317 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
319 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
320 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
322 Vim interface improvements
323 --------------------------
324 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
326 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
327 * Implementing archive in show view
328 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
329 * Add delete commands
332 Bindings improvements
333 ---------------------
334 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
336 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
337 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
339 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
340 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
343 - Message().get_filenames(),
344 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
345 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
347 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
348 These allow, for example:
351 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
353 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
358 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
359 Use len(list(Messages())) or
360 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
362 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
364 New build-system features
365 -------------------------
366 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
368 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
369 the configure script from some other directory:
376 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
378 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
379 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
380 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
381 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
382 manual invocation of configure.
384 New test-suite feature
385 ----------------------
386 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
388 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
389 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
390 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
391 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
392 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
395 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
397 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
398 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
399 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
400 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
401 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
402 are updated to take advantage of this.
404 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
406 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
407 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
408 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
409 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
414 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
416 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
417 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
418 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
420 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
422 This fixed a bug where a search for:
424 to:user@elsewhere.com
426 would incorrectly match a message sent:
428 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
430 Fix --output=json when search has no results
432 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
433 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
434 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
437 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
438 from the Received headers in some cases.
440 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
441 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
443 Cleaned up several memory leaks
445 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
447 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
449 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
450 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
451 interface and were never intended to be exported.
453 Emacs-interface bug fixes
454 -------------------------
455 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
457 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
458 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
459 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
461 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
463 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
464 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
465 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
468 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
470 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
471 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
472 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
473 fixed to avoid this bug.
475 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
477 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
478 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
480 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
481 ========================
482 New, general features
483 ---------------------
484 Maildir-flag synchronization
486 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
487 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
496 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
498 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
499 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
500 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
501 renamed with an 'R' flag).
503 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
504 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
505 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
506 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
509 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
511 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
512 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
513 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
515 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
516 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
518 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
519 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
521 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
522 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
523 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
527 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
529 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
530 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
531 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
532 notmuch_message_get_filename).
534 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
535 message with the new function:
537 notmuch_message_get_filenames
539 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
540 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
541 all available filenames for a given message.
543 New command-line features
544 -------------------------
545 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
547 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
548 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
549 access to the mail store itself.
551 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
552 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
553 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
554 name of a script containing:
556 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
558 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
559 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
564 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
566 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
568 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
570 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
571 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
572 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
573 now produces nothing).
575 Emacs interface improvements
576 ----------------------------
577 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
579 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
581 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
583 Display current thread subject in a header line.
585 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
587 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
589 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
590 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
591 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
592 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
593 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
594 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
595 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
597 Vim interface improvements
598 --------------------------
599 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
601 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
602 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
607 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
609 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
610 ========================
611 New command-line features
612 -------------------------
613 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
615 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
616 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
617 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
619 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
620 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
621 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
622 scripts. For example:
624 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
625 <operations-on> "$file"
628 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
630 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
631 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
632 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
633 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
634 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
635 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
637 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
639 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
640 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
641 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
642 custom items stored in the configuration file.
644 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
646 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
647 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
648 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
649 default rather than Bcc.
653 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
655 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
656 notmuch_query_t object.
660 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
662 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
663 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
664 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
665 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
666 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
667 notmuch customize interface.
669 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
671 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
672 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
673 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
674 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
676 Optional support for detecting inline patches
678 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
679 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
680 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
681 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
683 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
685 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
686 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
687 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
688 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
689 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
690 notmuch customize interface.
692 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
694 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
695 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
696 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
697 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
698 notmuch customize interface.
700 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
702 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
703 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
704 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
705 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
708 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
710 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
711 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
712 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
715 New build-system features
716 -------------------------
717 Various portability fixes have been applied
719 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
720 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
721 more portable than ever before.
723 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
725 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
726 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
727 after installing. This support takes two forms:
729 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
730 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
731 automatically run ldconfig.
733 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
734 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
735 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
737 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
738 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
739 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
740 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
742 Check compiler/linker options before using them
744 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
745 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
746 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
747 used in the resulting Makefile.
749 New test-suite features
750 -----------------------
751 New modularization of test suite.
753 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
754 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
755 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
756 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
757 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
758 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
759 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
760 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
762 New testing of emacs interface.
764 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
765 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
766 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
767 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
768 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
769 database via the FCC setting.
773 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
775 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
776 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
777 persistent error of the form:
779 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
781 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
782 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
784 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
786 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
787 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
788 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
790 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
792 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
793 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
794 parsing the notmuch results).
796 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
798 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
800 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
801 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
802 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
806 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
808 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
809 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
810 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
811 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
814 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
816 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
817 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
818 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
822 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
824 Debian-specific fixes
825 ---------------------
826 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
828 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
829 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
830 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
833 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
834 ==========================
837 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
839 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
840 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
841 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
842 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
844 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
846 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
847 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
848 want notmuch to crash.
852 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
854 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
855 directory does not exist.
859 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
861 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
862 final linking of notmuch would fail.
864 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
865 ========================
866 New command-line features
867 -------------------------
868 User-configurable tags for new messages
870 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
871 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
872 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
873 to specify this value.
875 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
877 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
878 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
879 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
881 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
883 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
884 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
886 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
888 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
889 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
890 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
891 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
892 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
895 Indication of author names that match a search
897 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
898 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
899 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
900 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
901 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
902 messages in the thread are listed first.
906 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
907 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
908 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
909 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
911 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
912 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
913 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
916 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
917 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
918 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
920 Emacs interface improvements
921 ----------------------------
922 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
924 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
925 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
926 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
927 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
928 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
929 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
930 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
931 but without any of the disadvantages).
933 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
934 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
935 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
938 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
939 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
940 recommend instead running something like:
942 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
944 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
945 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
946 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
949 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
951 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
952 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
955 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
956 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
957 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
960 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
961 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
962 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
965 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
967 This support currently relies on an external program,
968 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
969 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
970 already been written that generate address completions by doing
971 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
972 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
975 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
976 notmuch) is available via:
978 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
980 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
981 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
982 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
984 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
986 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
987 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
988 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
989 making this automatic in a future release.
991 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
993 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
994 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
995 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
996 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
997 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
998 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1001 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1003 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1004 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1005 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1007 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1009 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1010 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1011 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1013 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1014 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1015 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1016 other representation.
1018 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1019 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1022 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1024 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1025 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1026 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1028 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1029 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1030 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1032 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1034 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1035 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1036 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1037 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1038 to display the search result.
1040 More flexible handling of header visibility
1042 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1043 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1044 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1045 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1046 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1047 with the 'h' keybinding.
1049 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1050 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1051 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1053 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1055 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1057 Customizable formatting of search results
1059 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1060 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1061 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1063 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1065 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1067 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1071 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1073 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1074 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1075 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1076 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1081 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1083 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1084 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1086 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1088 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1089 accept are now all accepted.
1093 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1095 Better display of output from failed tests.
1097 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1098 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1100 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1101 ========================
1102 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1103 detailed release notes this time!
1105 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1106 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1108 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1109 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1110 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1111 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1117 Better guessing of From: header.
1119 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1120 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1121 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1122 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1123 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1126 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1128 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1129 guaranteed to match all messages.
1131 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1133 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1134 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1135 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1136 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1137 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1140 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1143 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1144 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1145 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1146 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1150 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1152 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1153 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1154 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1155 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1157 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1159 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1161 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1162 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1163 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1165 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1167 Previously, the user might see:
1169 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1173 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1175 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1176 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1177 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1178 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1180 Emacs client features
1181 ---------------------
1182 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1184 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1185 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1186 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1187 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1188 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1190 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1193 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1194 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1195 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1196 search with the '*' binding.
1198 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1200 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1201 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1204 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1206 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1207 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1208 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1210 Build-system features
1211 ---------------------
1212 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1214 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1216 We include actual support for:
1218 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1220 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1222 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1223 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1225 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1226 separate "make install-emacs".
1228 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1230 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1231 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1232 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1234 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1237 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1238 ========================
1239 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1241 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1242 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1244 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1245 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1246 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1247 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1248 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1249 tags from messages in a thread.