1 Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
2 =============================
7 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
9 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
10 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
11 behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
12 should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
13 are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
14 details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
17 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
19 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
20 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
21 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
22 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
25 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
27 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
28 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
29 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
30 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
31 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
32 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
33 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
38 Notmuch database upgrade
40 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
41 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
42 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
43 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
44 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
45 released version of Notmuch before now.
47 Command-Line Interface
48 ----------------------
50 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
52 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
54 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
56 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
63 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
64 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
65 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
66 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
67 `~/.emacs` with these.
69 Changed format for saved searches
71 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
72 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
73 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
74 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
77 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
78 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
79 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
80 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
82 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
83 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
84 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
86 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
87 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
88 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
89 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
90 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
92 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
94 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
95 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
96 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
98 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
100 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
101 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
102 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
103 message had been unread).
105 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
106 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
107 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
108 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
110 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
111 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
112 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
114 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
115 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
116 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
117 to tags already present.
121 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
122 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
123 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
124 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
125 these differ from each other.
126 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
128 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
130 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
131 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
132 for these Emacs versions.
134 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
136 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
137 newlines before calling notmuch count.
139 Bug fixes for sender identities
141 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
142 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
143 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
145 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
147 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
148 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
149 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
150 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
155 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
156 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
158 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
159 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
160 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
161 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
163 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
164 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
165 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
166 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
167 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
169 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
171 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
172 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
174 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
175 =========================
177 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
178 ---------------------------------------
180 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
181 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
182 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
183 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
184 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
185 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
186 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
190 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
191 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
193 Command-Line Interface
194 ----------------------
196 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
198 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
199 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
200 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
201 print for each message.
203 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
204 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
205 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
206 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
208 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
210 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
211 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
212 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
214 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
216 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
217 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
218 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
219 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
221 `notmuch compact` command
223 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
224 functionality through a more convenient interface than
225 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
226 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
227 move the compacted database into place.
232 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
234 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
235 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
236 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
237 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
238 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
239 and multiple threads.
243 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
245 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
246 search, show and tree mode itself)
248 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
251 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
252 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
254 Customising `notmuch-tree`
256 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
257 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
258 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
259 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
260 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
261 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
262 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
264 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
266 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
267 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
268 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
269 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
270 thread when the search was performed.
272 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
274 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
275 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
276 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
278 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
280 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
281 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
284 Built-in help improvements
286 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
287 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
288 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
290 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
292 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
293 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
294 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
296 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
298 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
299 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
301 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
303 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
304 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
305 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
306 to move some of them to the common keymap.
308 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
310 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
311 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
312 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
313 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
315 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
317 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
318 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
319 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
321 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
323 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
324 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
325 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
327 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
329 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
330 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
331 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
332 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
333 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
335 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
337 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
338 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
339 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
340 the body part of the message.
345 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
346 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
347 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
349 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
350 =========================
352 Command-Line Interface
353 ----------------------
355 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
357 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
358 folder and notmuch index.
360 `notmuch count --batch` option
362 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
363 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
365 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
367 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
368 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
369 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
372 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
374 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
375 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
376 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
377 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
378 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
381 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
383 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
384 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
386 Top level option to specify configuration file
388 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
389 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
391 Bash command-line completion
393 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
394 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
395 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
396 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
397 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
398 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
399 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
400 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
401 bash-completion package.
403 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
408 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
410 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
411 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
412 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
413 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
414 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
415 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
416 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
417 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
419 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
421 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
422 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
423 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
425 Key bindings for next/previous thread
427 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
428 previous thread in the search results.
430 Better handling of errors in search buffers
432 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
433 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
435 Faster search and show
437 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
438 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
439 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
440 threads should show faster.
444 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
445 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
446 in question was now removed from this release.
451 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
452 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
457 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
459 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
460 ===========================
465 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
467 Internal test framework changes
468 -------------------------------
470 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
473 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
474 ===========================
476 Internal test framework changes
477 -------------------------------
479 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
480 build failures in non-interactive environments.
482 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
483 =========================
488 Date range search support
490 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
491 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
492 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
493 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
494 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
497 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
499 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
500 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
501 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
502 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
503 but may be removed in a future release.
505 Command-Line Interface
506 ----------------------
508 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
510 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
511 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
513 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
515 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
516 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
517 officially deprecated.
519 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
521 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
522 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
523 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
525 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
527 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
528 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
531 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
532 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
535 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
537 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
538 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
539 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
541 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
543 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
544 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
545 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
547 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
549 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
550 output separated by null characters rather than newline
551 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
552 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
557 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
559 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
560 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
561 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
562 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
564 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
566 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
567 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
568 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
569 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
570 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
571 the behavior of this, see
572 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
573 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
575 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
576 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
577 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
579 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
581 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
582 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
585 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
587 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
588 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
589 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
590 simply displayed in place of the message.
592 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
594 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
595 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
597 Improved text/calendar content handling
599 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
600 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
601 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
602 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
604 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
606 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
607 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
608 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
609 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
611 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
613 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
614 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
615 for HTML email containing images.
617 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
619 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
621 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
623 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
626 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
628 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
629 the point where it was.
631 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
633 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
634 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
635 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
636 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
637 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
639 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
641 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
642 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
643 thread instead of the message id.
645 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
646 -----------------------------
648 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
649 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
650 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
651 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
652 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
653 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
654 further details and installation.
659 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
661 Internal test framework changes
662 -------------------------------
664 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
666 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
667 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
668 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
669 can result in buggy behavior.
671 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
672 =========================
677 Maildir tag synchronization
679 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
680 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
681 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
682 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
683 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
684 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
687 Command-Line Interface
688 ----------------------
690 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
691 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
692 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
693 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
694 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
700 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
702 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
704 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
705 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
706 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
708 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
710 It is now possible to embed newlines in
711 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
714 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
716 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
717 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
718 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
719 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
720 inside the result or message.
722 Search now uses the JSON format internally
724 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
725 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
727 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
728 user-specified formatting
730 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
731 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
732 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
733 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
734 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
736 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
737 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
739 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
740 ===========================
745 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
746 compilation error for this contrib package.
748 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
749 ===========================
754 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
756 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
757 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
758 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
759 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
761 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
762 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
765 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
766 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
767 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
768 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
771 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
773 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
776 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
777 =========================
779 Command-Line Interface
780 ----------------------
784 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
785 for a reply message and full information about the original message
786 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
787 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
789 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
790 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
791 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
792 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
796 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
797 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
799 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
800 tag in your query, for example:
802 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
804 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
805 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
807 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
808 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
810 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
812 Raw show format changes
814 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
815 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
816 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
817 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
818 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
819 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
820 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
821 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
823 Listing configuration items
825 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
831 Changes to tagging interface
833 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
834 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
835 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
836 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
837 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
838 for more information.
840 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
841 may need to update in custom configurations.
843 Reply improvement using the JSON format
845 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
846 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
847 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
848 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
851 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
852 -----------------------------
854 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
855 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
856 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
857 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
858 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
859 contrib/ from now on.
864 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
865 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
867 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
868 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
870 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
871 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
872 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
874 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
875 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
877 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
878 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
879 returning the new database object or directory object.
886 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
887 compatible with go 1.
889 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
890 =========================
892 Command-Line Interface
893 ----------------------
897 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
898 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
899 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
900 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
902 Mail store folder/file ignore
904 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
905 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
906 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
908 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
909 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
911 Unified help and manual pages
913 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
914 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
917 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
919 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
920 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
928 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
929 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
930 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
931 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
933 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
935 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
936 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
938 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
941 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
942 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
943 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
945 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
947 should be changed to:
949 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
951 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
953 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
954 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
956 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
958 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
959 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
960 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
961 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
962 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
963 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
967 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
968 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
969 of Mailing List Archives.
971 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
973 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
974 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
977 Show view archiving key binding changes
979 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
980 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
981 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
982 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
983 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
986 Support text/calendar MIME type
988 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
991 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
993 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
994 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
995 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
996 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
998 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1000 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1001 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1002 messages blue by default in the search view.
1006 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1007 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1014 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1017 Python bindings changes
1018 -----------------------
1020 Python 3.2 compatibility
1022 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1024 Added missing unicode conversions
1026 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1027 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1028 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1033 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1035 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1036 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1037 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1038 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1039 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1041 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1042 ===========================
1047 Fix error handling in python bindings
1049 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1050 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1051 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1052 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1054 Quote MML tags in replies
1056 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1057 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1058 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1059 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1060 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1061 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1062 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1063 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1065 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1066 =========================
1068 Command-Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1073 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1074 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1075 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1076 importing new messages into the database.
1078 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1080 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1081 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1082 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1087 Automatic tag query optimization
1089 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1090 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1091 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1093 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1095 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1096 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1097 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1102 Reduction of memory leaks
1104 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1105 and fixed in this release.
1112 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1113 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1114 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1117 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1119 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1120 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1121 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1124 Improvements in saved search management
1126 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1127 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1128 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1130 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1132 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1133 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1134 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1136 New face for crypto parts headers
1138 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1139 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1140 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1143 Use space as default thousands separator
1145 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1146 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1147 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1149 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1150 buttonized id: links
1152 New function notmuch-show-advance
1154 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1155 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1156 be bound to SPC with:
1158 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1160 Various performance improvements
1165 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1166 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1169 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1170 ===========================
1175 Fix crash in python bindings
1177 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1178 for some, but not all users.
1180 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1181 ===========================
1186 Fix `--help` argument
1188 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1189 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1190 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1192 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1193 =========================
1195 New build and testing features
1196 ------------------------------
1198 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1199 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1200 prerequisites is improved.
1202 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1204 New command-line features
1205 -------------------------
1207 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1209 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1210 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1213 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1215 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1216 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1217 favour of using stdout.
1219 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1221 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1222 limit the number of results shown.
1224 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1226 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1227 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1230 New emacs UI features
1231 ---------------------
1233 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1235 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1236 starting with "tag:".
1238 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1240 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1241 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1243 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1245 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1247 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1249 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1250 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1255 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1257 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1259 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1260 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1261 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1262 requires a database rebuild:
1264 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1265 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1267 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1269 New collection of add-on tools
1270 ------------------------------
1272 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1273 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1274 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1277 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1279 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1280 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1281 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1283 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1284 ========================
1286 New, general features
1287 ---------------------
1289 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1291 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1292 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1293 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1294 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1295 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1302 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1303 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1305 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1309 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1310 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1311 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1314 Python bindings changes
1315 -----------------------
1317 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1319 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1320 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1321 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1322 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1323 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1324 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1326 Ruby bindings changes
1327 ---------------------
1329 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1330 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1331 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1332 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1337 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1339 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1340 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1342 Reply formatting cleanup
1343 ------------------------
1345 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1346 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1348 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1349 ========================
1351 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1353 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1354 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1355 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1356 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1359 Improved Build system portability
1361 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1362 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1363 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1365 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1367 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1369 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1371 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1372 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1373 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1375 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1376 ========================
1378 Vim interface improvements
1379 --------------------------
1381 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1383 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1384 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1385 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1386 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1387 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1389 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1391 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1392 * fix compose temp file name
1394 Python Bindings changes
1395 -----------------------
1397 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1399 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1400 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1402 Build-System improvements
1403 -------------------------
1405 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1407 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1410 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1411 ==========================
1416 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1418 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1419 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1421 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1422 =======================
1424 New, general features
1425 ---------------------
1427 Folder-based searching
1429 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1430 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1431 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1435 For example, one might use things such as:
1441 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1442 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1444 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1445 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1446 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1447 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1449 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1450 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1451 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1454 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1455 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1457 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1459 Support for PGP/MIME
1461 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1462 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1463 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1465 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1467 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1468 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1470 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1471 notmuch will receive these tags.
1473 New command-line features
1474 -------------------------
1476 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1478 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1479 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1481 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1483 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1484 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1485 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1487 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1489 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1490 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1491 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1492 which parts a signature part applies).
1494 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1496 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1497 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1498 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1499 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1500 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1503 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1505 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1506 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1507 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1508 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1509 by translating it internally to the new call.
1511 Performance improvements
1512 ------------------------
1514 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1516 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1517 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1518 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1520 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1521 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1523 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1525 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1526 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1527 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1529 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1530 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1531 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1532 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1534 Faster initial indexing
1536 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1537 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1538 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1540 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1542 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1543 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1544 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1545 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1547 New emacs-interface features
1548 ----------------------------
1550 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1552 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1553 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1554 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1555 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1556 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1557 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1559 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1561 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1562 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1563 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1564 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1566 User-selectable From address
1568 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1569 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1570 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1571 will prompt for the from address to use.
1573 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1574 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1575 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1577 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1578 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1579 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1582 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1584 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1585 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1587 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1589 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1591 ----- Original Message -----
1593 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1594 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1595 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1596 citations work much like conventional citations.
1598 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1600 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1601 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1602 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1603 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1604 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1606 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1607 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1609 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1611 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1612 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1613 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1615 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1617 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1618 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1619 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1620 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1621 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1623 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1625 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1628 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1630 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1632 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1634 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1637 Vim interface improvements
1638 --------------------------
1640 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1642 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1643 * Implementing archive in show view
1644 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1645 * Add delete commands
1648 Bindings improvements
1649 ---------------------
1651 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1653 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1654 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1656 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1658 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1662 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1663 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1664 `list(Messages)` works now
1665 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1667 These allow, for example:
1669 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1671 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1673 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1679 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1681 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1684 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1686 New build-system features
1687 -------------------------
1689 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1691 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1692 the configure script from some other directory:
1699 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1701 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1702 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1703 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1704 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1705 manual invocation of configure.
1707 New test-suite feature
1708 ----------------------
1710 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1712 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1713 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1714 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1715 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1716 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1719 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1721 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1722 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1723 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1724 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1725 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1726 are updated to take advantage of this.
1728 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1730 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1731 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1732 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1733 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1739 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1741 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1742 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1743 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1745 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1747 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1749 to:user@elsewhere.com
1751 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1753 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1755 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1757 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1758 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1759 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1762 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1763 from the Received headers in some cases
1765 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1766 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1768 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1770 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1772 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1774 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1775 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1776 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1778 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1779 -------------------------
1781 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1783 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1784 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1785 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1787 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1789 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1790 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1791 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1794 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1796 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1797 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1798 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1799 fixed to avoid this bug.
1801 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1803 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1804 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1806 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1807 ========================
1809 New, general features
1810 ---------------------
1812 Maildir-flag synchronization
1814 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1815 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1824 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1826 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1827 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1828 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1829 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1831 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1832 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1833 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1834 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1837 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1839 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1840 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1841 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1843 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1844 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1846 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1847 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1849 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1850 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1851 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1853 New library features
1854 --------------------
1856 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1858 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1859 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1860 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1861 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1863 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1864 message with the new function:
1866 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1868 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1869 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1870 over all available filenames for a given message.
1872 New command-line features
1873 -------------------------
1875 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1877 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1878 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1879 access to the mail store itself.
1881 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1882 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1883 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1884 name of a script containing:
1886 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1888 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1889 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1895 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1897 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1899 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1901 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1902 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1903 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1904 now produces nothing).
1906 Emacs interface improvements
1907 ----------------------------
1909 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1911 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1913 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1915 Display current thread subject in a header line
1917 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1919 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1921 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1922 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1923 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1924 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1925 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1926 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1927 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1929 Vim interface improvements
1930 --------------------------
1932 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1934 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1935 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1941 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1943 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1944 ========================
1946 New command-line features
1947 -------------------------
1949 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1951 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1952 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1953 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1955 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1956 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1957 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1958 scripts. For example:
1960 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1961 <operations-on> "$file"
1964 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1966 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1967 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1968 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1969 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1970 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1971 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1973 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1975 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1976 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1977 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1978 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1980 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1982 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1983 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1984 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1985 default rather than Bcc.
1987 New library features
1988 --------------------
1990 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1992 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1993 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1998 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2000 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2001 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2002 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2003 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2004 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2005 notmuch customize interface.
2007 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2009 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2010 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2011 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2012 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2014 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2016 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2017 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2018 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2019 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2021 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2023 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2024 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2025 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2026 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2027 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2028 notmuch customize interface.
2030 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2032 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2033 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2034 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2035 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2036 notmuch customize interface.
2038 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2040 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2041 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2042 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2043 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2046 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2048 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2049 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2050 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2053 New build-system features
2054 -------------------------
2056 Various portability fixes have been applied
2058 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2059 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2060 more portable than ever before.
2062 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2064 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2065 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2066 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2068 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2069 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2070 automatically run ldconfig.
2072 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2073 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2074 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2076 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2077 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2078 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2079 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2081 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2083 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2084 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2085 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2086 used in the resulting Makefile.
2088 New test-suite features
2089 -----------------------
2091 New modularization of test suite
2093 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2094 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2095 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2096 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2097 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2098 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2099 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2100 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2102 New testing of emacs interface
2104 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2105 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2106 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2107 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2108 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2109 database via the FCC setting.
2114 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2116 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2117 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2118 persistent error of the form:
2120 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2122 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2123 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2125 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2127 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2128 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2129 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2131 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2133 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2134 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2135 parsing the notmuch results).
2137 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2139 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2142 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2143 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2144 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2149 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2151 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2152 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2153 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2154 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2155 the emacs interface.
2157 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2159 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2160 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2161 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2163 Python-binding fixes
2164 --------------------
2166 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2168 Debian-specific fixes
2169 ---------------------
2171 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2173 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2174 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2175 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2178 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2179 ==========================
2184 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2186 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2187 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2188 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2189 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2191 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2193 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2194 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2195 want notmuch to crash.
2200 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2202 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2203 directory does not exist
2208 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2210 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2211 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2213 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2214 ========================
2216 New command-line features
2217 -------------------------
2219 User-configurable tags for new messages
2221 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2222 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2223 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2224 to specify this value.
2226 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2228 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2229 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2230 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2232 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2234 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2235 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2237 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2239 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2240 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2241 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2242 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2243 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2246 Indication of author names that match a search
2248 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2249 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2250 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2251 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2252 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2253 messages in the thread are listed first.
2255 New: Python bindings
2256 --------------------
2258 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2259 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2260 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2261 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2263 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2264 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2265 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2268 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2269 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2270 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2272 Emacs interface improvements
2273 ----------------------------
2275 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2277 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2278 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2279 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2280 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2281 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2282 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2283 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2284 but without any of the disadvantages).
2286 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2287 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2288 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2291 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2292 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2293 instead running something like:
2295 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2297 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2298 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2299 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2302 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2304 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2305 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2306 tweaked by the user.
2308 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2309 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2310 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2313 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2314 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2315 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2318 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2320 This support currently relies on an external program,
2321 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2322 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2323 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2324 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2325 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2328 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2329 notmuch) is available via:
2331 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2333 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2334 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2335 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2337 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2339 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2340 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2341 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2342 making this automatic in a future release.
2344 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2346 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2347 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2348 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2349 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2350 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2351 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2354 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2356 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2357 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2358 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2360 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2362 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2363 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2364 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2366 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2367 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2368 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2369 other representation.
2371 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2372 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2375 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2377 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2378 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2379 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2381 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2382 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2383 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2385 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2387 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2388 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2389 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2390 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2391 to display the search result.
2393 More flexible handling of header visibility
2395 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2396 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2397 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2398 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2399 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2400 with the 'h' keybinding.
2402 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2403 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2404 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2406 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2408 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2410 Customizable formatting of search results
2412 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2413 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2414 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2416 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2418 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2420 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2425 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2427 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2428 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2429 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2430 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2436 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2438 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2439 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2441 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2443 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2444 accept are now all accepted.
2449 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2451 Better display of output from failed tests
2453 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2454 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2456 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2457 ========================
2459 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2460 detailed release notes this time!
2462 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2463 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2465 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2466 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2467 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2468 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2475 Better guessing of From: header
2477 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2478 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2479 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2480 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2481 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2484 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2486 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2487 guaranteed to match all messages.
2489 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2491 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2492 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2493 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2494 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2495 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2498 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2501 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2502 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2503 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2504 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2509 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2511 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2512 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2513 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2514 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2516 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2518 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2520 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2521 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2522 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2524 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2526 Previously, the user might see:
2528 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2532 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2534 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2535 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2536 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2537 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2539 Emacs client features
2540 ---------------------
2542 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2544 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2545 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2546 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2547 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2548 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2550 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2553 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2554 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2555 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2556 search with the '*' binding.
2558 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2560 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2561 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2564 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2566 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2567 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2568 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2570 Build-system features
2571 ---------------------
2573 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2575 Add support to configure for many standard options
2577 We include actual support for:
2579 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2581 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2583 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2584 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2586 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2587 separate "make install-emacs"
2589 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2591 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2592 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2593 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2595 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2598 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2599 ========================
2601 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2603 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2604 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2606 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2607 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2608 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2609 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2610 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2611 tags from messages in a thread.
2618 indent-tabs-mode: nil