2 Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED)
3 =========================
8 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
10 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
11 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
12 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
13 print for each message.
15 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
16 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
17 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
18 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
20 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
22 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
23 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
24 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
26 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
28 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
29 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
30 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
31 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
36 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
38 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
39 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
40 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
41 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
42 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
47 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
49 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
50 search, show and tree mode itself)
52 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
55 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
56 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
58 Customising `notmuch-tree`
60 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
61 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
62 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
63 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
64 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
65 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
66 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
68 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
70 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
71 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
72 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
73 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
74 thread when the search was performed.
76 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
78 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
79 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
80 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
82 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
84 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
85 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
88 Built-in help improvements
90 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
91 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
92 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
94 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
96 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
97 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
99 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
101 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
102 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
103 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
104 to move some of them to the common keymap.
106 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
108 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
109 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
110 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
111 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
113 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
115 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
116 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
117 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
118 the body part of the message.
120 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
121 =========================
123 Command-Line Interface
124 ----------------------
126 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
128 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
129 folder and notmuch index.
131 `notmuch count --batch` option
133 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
134 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
136 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
138 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
139 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
140 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
143 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
145 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
146 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
147 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
148 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
149 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
152 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
154 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
155 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
157 Top level option to specify configuration file
159 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
160 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
162 Bash command-line completion
164 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
165 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
166 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
167 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
168 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
169 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
170 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
171 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
172 bash-completion package.
174 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
179 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
181 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
182 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
183 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
184 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
185 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
186 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
187 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
188 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
190 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
192 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
193 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
194 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
196 Key bindings for next/previous thread
198 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
199 previous thread in the search results.
201 Better handling of errors in search buffers
203 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
204 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
206 Faster search and show
208 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
209 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
210 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
211 threads should show faster.
215 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
216 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
217 in question was now removed from this release.
222 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
223 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
228 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
230 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
231 ===========================
236 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
238 Internal test framework changes
239 -------------------------------
241 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
244 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
245 ===========================
247 Internal test framework changes
248 -------------------------------
250 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
251 build failures in non-interactive environments.
253 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
254 =========================
259 Date range search support
261 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
262 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
263 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
264 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
265 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
268 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
270 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
271 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
272 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
273 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
274 but may be removed in a future release.
276 Command-Line Interface
277 ----------------------
279 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
281 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
282 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
284 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
286 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
287 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
288 officially deprecated.
290 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
292 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
293 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
294 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
296 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
298 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
299 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
302 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
303 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
306 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
308 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
309 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
310 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
312 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
314 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
315 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
316 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
318 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
320 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
321 output separated by null characters rather than newline
322 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
323 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
328 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
330 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
331 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
332 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
333 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
335 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
337 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
338 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
339 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
340 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
341 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
342 the behavior of this, see
343 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
344 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
346 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
347 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
348 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
350 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
352 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
353 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
356 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
358 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
359 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
360 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
361 simply displayed in place of the message.
363 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
365 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
366 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
368 Improved text/calendar content handling
370 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
371 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
372 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
373 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
375 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
377 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
378 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
379 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
380 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
382 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
384 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
385 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
386 for HTML email containing images.
388 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
390 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
392 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
394 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
397 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
399 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
400 the point where it was.
402 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
404 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
405 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
406 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
407 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
408 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
410 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
412 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
413 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
414 thread instead of the message id.
416 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
417 -----------------------------
419 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
420 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
421 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
422 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
423 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
424 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
425 further details and installation.
430 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
432 Internal test framework changes
433 -------------------------------
435 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
437 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
438 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
439 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
440 can result in buggy behavior.
442 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
443 =========================
448 Maildir tag synchronization
450 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
451 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
452 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
453 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
454 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
455 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
458 Command-Line Interface
459 ----------------------
461 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
462 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
463 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
464 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
465 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
471 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
473 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
475 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
476 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
477 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
479 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
481 It is now possible to embed newlines in
482 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
485 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
487 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
488 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
489 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
490 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
491 inside the result or message.
493 Search now uses the JSON format internally
495 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
496 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
498 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
499 user-specified formatting
501 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
502 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
503 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
504 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
505 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
507 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
508 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
510 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
511 ===========================
516 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
517 compilation error for this contrib package.
519 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
520 ===========================
525 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
527 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
528 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
529 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
530 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
532 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
533 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
536 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
537 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
538 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
539 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
542 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
544 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
547 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
548 =========================
550 Command-Line Interface
551 ----------------------
555 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
556 for a reply message and full information about the original message
557 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
558 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
560 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
561 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
562 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
563 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
567 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
568 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
570 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
571 tag in your query, for example:
573 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
575 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
576 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
578 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
579 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
581 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
583 Raw show format changes
585 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
586 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
587 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
588 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
589 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
590 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
591 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
592 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
594 Listing configuration items
596 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
602 Changes to tagging interface
604 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
605 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
606 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
607 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
608 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
609 for more information.
611 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
612 may need to update in custom configurations.
614 Reply improvement using the JSON format
616 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
617 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
618 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
619 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
622 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
623 -----------------------------
625 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
626 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
627 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
628 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
629 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
630 contrib/ from now on.
635 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
636 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
638 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
639 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
641 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
642 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
643 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
645 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
646 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
648 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
649 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
650 returning the new database object or directory object.
657 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
658 compatible with go 1.
660 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
661 =========================
663 Command-Line Interface
664 ----------------------
668 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
669 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
670 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
671 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
673 Mail store folder/file ignore
675 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
676 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
677 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
679 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
680 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
682 Unified help and manual pages
684 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
685 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
688 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
690 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
691 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
699 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
700 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
701 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
702 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
704 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
706 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
707 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
709 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
712 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
713 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
714 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
716 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
718 should be changed to:
720 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
722 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
724 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
725 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
727 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
729 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
730 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
731 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
732 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
733 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
734 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
738 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
739 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
740 of Mailing List Archives.
742 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
744 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
745 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
748 Show view archiving key binding changes
750 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
751 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
752 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
753 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
754 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
757 Support text/calendar MIME type
759 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
762 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
764 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
765 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
766 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
767 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
769 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
771 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
772 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
773 messages blue by default in the search view.
777 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
778 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
785 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
788 Python bindings changes
789 -----------------------
791 Python 3.2 compatibility
793 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
795 Added missing unicode conversions
797 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
798 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
799 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
804 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
806 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
807 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
808 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
809 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
810 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
812 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
813 ===========================
818 Fix error handling in python bindings
820 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
821 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
822 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
823 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
825 Quote MML tags in replies
827 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
828 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
829 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
830 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
831 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
832 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
833 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
834 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
836 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
837 =========================
839 Command-Line Interface
840 ----------------------
844 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
845 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
846 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
847 importing new messages into the database.
849 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
851 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
852 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
853 sometimes. This is now fixed.
858 Automatic tag query optimization
860 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
861 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
862 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
864 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
866 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
867 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
868 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
873 Reduction of memory leaks
875 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
876 and fixed in this release.
883 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
884 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
885 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
888 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
890 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
891 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
892 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
895 Improvements in saved search management
897 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
898 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
899 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
901 Hooks for notmuch-hello
903 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
904 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
905 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
907 New face for crypto parts headers
909 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
910 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
911 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
914 Use space as default thousands separator
916 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
917 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
918 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
920 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
923 New function notmuch-show-advance
925 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
926 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
927 be bound to SPC with:
929 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
931 Various performance improvements
936 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
937 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
940 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
941 ===========================
946 Fix crash in python bindings
948 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
949 for some, but not all users.
951 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
952 ===========================
957 Fix `--help` argument
959 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
960 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
961 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
963 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
964 =========================
966 New build and testing features
967 ------------------------------
969 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
970 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
971 prerequisites is improved.
973 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
975 New command-line features
976 -------------------------
978 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
980 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
981 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
984 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
986 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
987 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
988 favour of using stdout.
990 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
992 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
993 limit the number of results shown.
995 Add `notmuch count --output` option
997 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
998 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1001 New emacs UI features
1002 ---------------------
1004 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1006 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1007 starting with "tag:".
1009 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1011 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1012 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1014 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1016 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1018 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1020 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1021 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1026 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1028 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1030 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1031 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1032 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1033 requires a database rebuild:
1035 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1036 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1038 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1040 New collection of add-on tools
1041 ------------------------------
1043 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1044 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1045 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1048 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1050 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1051 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1052 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1054 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1055 ========================
1057 New, general features
1058 ---------------------
1060 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1062 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1063 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1064 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1065 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1066 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1073 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1074 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1076 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1080 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1081 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1082 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1085 Python bindings changes
1086 -----------------------
1088 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1090 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1091 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1092 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1093 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1094 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1095 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1097 Ruby bindings changes
1098 ---------------------
1100 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1101 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1102 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1103 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1108 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1110 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1111 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1113 Reply formatting cleanup
1114 ------------------------
1116 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1117 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1119 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1120 ========================
1122 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1124 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1125 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1126 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1127 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1130 Improved Build system portability
1132 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1133 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1134 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1136 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1138 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1140 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1142 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1143 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1144 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1146 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1147 ========================
1149 Vim interface improvements
1150 --------------------------
1152 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1154 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1155 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1156 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1157 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1158 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1160 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1162 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1163 * fix compose temp file name
1165 Python Bindings changes
1166 -----------------------
1168 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1170 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1171 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1173 Build-System improvements
1174 -------------------------
1176 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1178 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1181 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1182 ==========================
1187 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1189 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1190 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1192 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1193 =======================
1195 New, general features
1196 ---------------------
1198 Folder-based searching
1200 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1201 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1202 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1206 For example, one might use things such as:
1212 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1213 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1215 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1216 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1217 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1218 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1220 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1221 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1222 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1225 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1226 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1228 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1230 Support for PGP/MIME
1232 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1233 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1234 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1236 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1238 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1239 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1241 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1242 notmuch will receive these tags.
1244 New command-line features
1245 -------------------------
1247 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1249 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1250 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1252 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1254 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1255 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1256 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1258 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1260 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1261 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1262 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1263 which parts a signature part applies).
1265 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1267 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1268 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1269 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1270 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1271 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1274 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1276 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1277 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1278 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1279 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1280 by translating it internally to the new call.
1282 Performance improvements
1283 ------------------------
1285 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1287 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1288 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1289 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1291 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1292 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1294 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1296 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1297 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1298 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1300 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1301 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1302 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1303 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1305 Faster initial indexing
1307 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1308 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1309 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1311 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1313 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1314 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1315 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1316 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1318 New emacs-interface features
1319 ----------------------------
1321 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1323 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1324 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1325 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1326 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1327 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1328 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1330 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1332 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1333 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1334 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1335 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1337 User-selectable From address
1339 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1340 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1341 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1342 will prompt for the from address to use.
1344 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1345 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1346 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1348 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1349 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1350 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1353 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1355 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1356 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1358 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1360 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1362 ----- Original Message -----
1364 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1365 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1366 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1367 citations work much like conventional citations.
1369 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1371 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1372 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1373 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1374 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1375 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1377 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1378 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1380 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1382 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1383 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1384 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1386 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1388 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1389 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1390 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1391 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1392 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1394 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1396 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1399 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1401 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1403 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1405 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1408 Vim interface improvements
1409 --------------------------
1411 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1413 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1414 * Implementing archive in show view
1415 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1416 * Add delete commands
1419 Bindings improvements
1420 ---------------------
1422 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1424 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1425 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1427 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1429 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1433 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1434 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1435 `list(Messages)` works now
1436 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1438 These allow, for example:
1440 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1442 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1444 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1450 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1452 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1455 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1457 New build-system features
1458 -------------------------
1460 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1462 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1463 the configure script from some other directory:
1470 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1472 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1473 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1474 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1475 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1476 manual invocation of configure.
1478 New test-suite feature
1479 ----------------------
1481 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1483 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1484 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1485 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1486 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1487 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1490 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1492 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1493 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1494 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1495 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1496 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1497 are updated to take advantage of this.
1499 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1501 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1502 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1503 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1504 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1510 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1512 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1513 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1514 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1516 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1518 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1520 to:user@elsewhere.com
1522 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1524 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1526 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1528 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1529 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1530 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1533 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1534 from the Received headers in some cases
1536 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1537 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1539 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1541 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1543 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1545 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1546 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1547 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1549 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1550 -------------------------
1552 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1554 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1555 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1556 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1558 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1560 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1561 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1562 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1565 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1567 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1568 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1569 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1570 fixed to avoid this bug.
1572 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1574 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1575 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1577 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1578 ========================
1580 New, general features
1581 ---------------------
1583 Maildir-flag synchronization
1585 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1586 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1595 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1597 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1598 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1599 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1600 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1602 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1603 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1604 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1605 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1608 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1610 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1611 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1612 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1614 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1615 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1617 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1618 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1620 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1621 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1622 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1624 New library features
1625 --------------------
1627 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1629 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1630 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1631 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1632 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1634 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1635 message with the new function:
1637 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1639 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1640 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1641 over all available filenames for a given message.
1643 New command-line features
1644 -------------------------
1646 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1648 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1649 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1650 access to the mail store itself.
1652 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1653 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1654 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1655 name of a script containing:
1657 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1659 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1660 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1666 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1668 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1670 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1672 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1673 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1674 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1675 now produces nothing).
1677 Emacs interface improvements
1678 ----------------------------
1680 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1682 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1684 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1686 Display current thread subject in a header line
1688 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1690 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1692 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1693 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1694 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1695 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1696 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1697 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1698 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1700 Vim interface improvements
1701 --------------------------
1703 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1705 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1706 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1712 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1714 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1715 ========================
1717 New command-line features
1718 -------------------------
1720 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1722 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1723 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1724 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1726 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1727 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1728 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1729 scripts. For example:
1731 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1732 <operations-on> "$file"
1735 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1737 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1738 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1739 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1740 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1741 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1742 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1744 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1746 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1747 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1748 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1749 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1751 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1753 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1754 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1755 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1756 default rather than Bcc.
1758 New library features
1759 --------------------
1761 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1763 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1764 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1769 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1771 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1772 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1773 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1774 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1775 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1776 notmuch customize interface.
1778 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1780 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1781 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1782 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1783 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1785 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1787 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1788 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1789 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1790 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1792 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1794 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1795 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1796 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1797 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1798 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1799 notmuch customize interface.
1801 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1803 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1804 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1805 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1806 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1807 notmuch customize interface.
1809 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1811 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1812 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1813 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1814 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1817 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1819 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1820 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1821 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1824 New build-system features
1825 -------------------------
1827 Various portability fixes have been applied
1829 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1830 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1831 more portable than ever before.
1833 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1835 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1836 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1837 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1839 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1840 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1841 automatically run ldconfig.
1843 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1844 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1845 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1847 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1848 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1849 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1850 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1852 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1854 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1855 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1856 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1857 used in the resulting Makefile.
1859 New test-suite features
1860 -----------------------
1862 New modularization of test suite
1864 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1865 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1866 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1867 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1868 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1869 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1870 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1871 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1873 New testing of emacs interface
1875 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1876 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1877 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1878 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1879 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1880 database via the FCC setting.
1885 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1887 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1888 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1889 persistent error of the form:
1891 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1893 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1894 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1896 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1898 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1899 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1900 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1902 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1904 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1905 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1906 parsing the notmuch results).
1908 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1910 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1913 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1914 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1915 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1920 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1922 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1923 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1924 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1925 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1926 the emacs interface.
1928 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1930 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1931 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1932 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1934 Python-binding fixes
1935 --------------------
1937 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1939 Debian-specific fixes
1940 ---------------------
1942 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1944 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1945 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1946 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1949 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1950 ==========================
1955 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1957 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1958 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1959 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1960 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1962 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1964 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1965 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1966 want notmuch to crash.
1971 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1973 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1974 directory does not exist
1979 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1981 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1982 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1984 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1985 ========================
1987 New command-line features
1988 -------------------------
1990 User-configurable tags for new messages
1992 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1993 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1994 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1995 to specify this value.
1997 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1999 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2000 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2001 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2003 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2005 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2006 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2008 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2010 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2011 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2012 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2013 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2014 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2017 Indication of author names that match a search
2019 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2020 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2021 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2022 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2023 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2024 messages in the thread are listed first.
2026 New: Python bindings
2027 --------------------
2029 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2030 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2031 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2032 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2034 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2035 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2036 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2039 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2040 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2041 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2043 Emacs interface improvements
2044 ----------------------------
2046 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2048 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2049 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2050 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2051 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2052 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2053 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2054 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2055 but without any of the disadvantages).
2057 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2058 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2059 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2062 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2063 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2064 instead running something like:
2066 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2068 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2069 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2070 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2073 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2075 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2076 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2077 tweaked by the user.
2079 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2080 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2081 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2084 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2085 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2086 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2089 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2091 This support currently relies on an external program,
2092 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2093 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2094 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2095 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2096 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2099 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2100 notmuch) is available via:
2102 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2104 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2105 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2106 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2108 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2110 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2111 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2112 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2113 making this automatic in a future release.
2115 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2117 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2118 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2119 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2120 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2121 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2122 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2125 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2127 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2128 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2129 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2131 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2133 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2134 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2135 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2137 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2138 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2139 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2140 other representation.
2142 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2143 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2146 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2148 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2149 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2150 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2152 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2153 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2154 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2156 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2158 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2159 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2160 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2161 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2162 to display the search result.
2164 More flexible handling of header visibility
2166 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2167 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2168 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2169 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2170 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2171 with the 'h' keybinding.
2173 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2174 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2175 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2177 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2179 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2181 Customizable formatting of search results
2183 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2184 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2185 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2187 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2189 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2191 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2196 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2198 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2199 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2200 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2201 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2207 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2209 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2210 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2212 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2214 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2215 accept are now all accepted.
2220 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2222 Better display of output from failed tests
2224 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2225 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2227 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2228 ========================
2230 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2231 detailed release notes this time!
2233 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2234 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2236 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2237 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2238 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2239 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2246 Better guessing of From: header
2248 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2249 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2250 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2251 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2252 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2255 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2257 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2258 guaranteed to match all messages.
2260 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2262 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2263 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2264 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2265 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2266 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2269 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2272 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2273 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2274 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2275 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2280 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2282 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2283 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2284 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2285 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2287 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2289 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2291 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2292 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2293 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2295 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2297 Previously, the user might see:
2299 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2303 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2305 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2306 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2307 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2308 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2310 Emacs client features
2311 ---------------------
2313 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2315 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2316 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2317 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2318 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2319 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2321 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2324 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2325 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2326 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2327 search with the '*' binding.
2329 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2331 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2332 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2335 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2337 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2338 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2339 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2341 Build-system features
2342 ---------------------
2344 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2346 Add support to configure for many standard options
2348 We include actual support for:
2350 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2352 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2354 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2355 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2357 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2358 separate "make install-emacs"
2360 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2362 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2363 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2364 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2366 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2369 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2370 ========================
2372 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2374 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2375 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2377 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2378 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2379 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2380 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2381 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2382 tags from messages in a thread.
2389 indent-tabs-mode: nil