1 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-xx-xx)
6 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
7 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
8 favour of using stdout.
10 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
11 ========================
16 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
18 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
19 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
20 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
21 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
22 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
29 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
30 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
32 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
36 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
37 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
38 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
41 Python bindings changes
42 -----------------------
44 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
46 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
47 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
48 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
49 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
50 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
51 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
56 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
57 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
58 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
59 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
64 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
66 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
67 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
69 Reply formatting cleanup
70 ------------------------
72 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
73 MIME parts are being suppressed.
75 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
76 ========================
78 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
80 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
81 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
82 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
83 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
86 Improved Build system portability
88 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
89 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
90 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
92 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
94 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
96 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
98 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
99 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
100 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
102 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
103 ========================
105 Vim interface improvements
106 --------------------------
108 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
110 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
111 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
112 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
113 * fix from list reformatting in search view
114 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
116 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
118 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
119 * fix compose temp file name
121 Python Bindings changes
122 -----------------------
124 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
126 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
127 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
129 Build-System improvments
130 ------------------------
132 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
134 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
137 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
138 ==========================
143 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
145 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
146 people running gcc 4.4.5.
148 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
149 =======================
150 New, general features
151 ---------------------
152 Folder-based searching
154 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
155 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
156 storage). The syntax is as follows:
160 For example, one might use things such as:
166 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
167 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
169 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
170 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
171 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
172 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
174 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
175 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
176 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
179 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
180 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
182 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
186 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
187 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
188 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
190 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
192 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
193 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
195 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
196 notmuch will receive these tags.
198 New command-line features
199 -------------------------
200 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
202 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
203 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
205 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
207 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
208 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
209 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
211 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
213 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
214 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
215 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
216 which parts a signature part applies).
218 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
220 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
221 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
222 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
223 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
224 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
227 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
229 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
230 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
231 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
232 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
233 by translating it internally to the new call.
235 Performance improvements
236 ------------------------
237 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
239 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
240 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
241 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
243 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
244 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
246 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
248 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
249 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
250 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
252 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
253 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
254 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
255 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
257 Faster initial indexing
259 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
260 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
261 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
263 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
265 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
266 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
267 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
268 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
270 New emacs-interface features
271 ----------------------------
273 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
275 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
276 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
277 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
278 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
279 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
280 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
282 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
284 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
285 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
286 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
287 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
289 User-selectable From address
291 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
292 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
293 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
294 will prompt for the from address to use.
296 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
297 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
298 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
300 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
301 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
302 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
305 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
307 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
308 its parent, the subject is not shown.
310 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
312 When a message contains a line looking something like:
314 ----- Original Message -----
316 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
317 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
318 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
319 citations work much like conventional citations.
321 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
323 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
324 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
325 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
326 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
327 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
329 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
330 Notmuch After Tag Hook
332 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
334 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
335 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
336 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
338 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
340 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
341 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
342 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
343 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
344 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
346 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
348 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
351 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
353 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
355 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
356 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
358 Vim interface improvements
359 --------------------------
360 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
362 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
363 * Implementing archive in show view
364 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
365 * Add delete commands
368 Bindings improvements
369 ---------------------
370 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
372 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
373 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
375 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
376 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
379 - Message().get_filenames(),
380 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
381 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
383 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
384 These allow, for example:
387 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
389 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
394 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
395 Use len(list(Messages())) or
396 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
398 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
400 New build-system features
401 -------------------------
402 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
404 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
405 the configure script from some other directory:
412 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
414 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
415 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
416 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
417 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
418 manual invocation of configure.
420 New test-suite feature
421 ----------------------
422 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
424 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
425 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
426 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
427 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
428 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
431 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
433 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
434 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
435 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
436 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
437 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
438 are updated to take advantage of this.
440 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
442 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
443 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
444 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
445 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
450 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
452 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
453 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
454 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
456 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
458 This fixed a bug where a search for:
460 to:user@elsewhere.com
462 would incorrectly match a message sent:
464 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
466 Fix --output=json when search has no results
468 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
469 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
470 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
473 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
474 from the Received headers in some cases.
476 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
477 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
479 Cleaned up several memory leaks
481 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
483 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
485 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
486 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
487 interface and were never intended to be exported.
489 Emacs-interface bug fixes
490 -------------------------
491 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
493 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
494 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
495 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
497 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
499 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
500 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
501 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
504 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
506 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
507 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
508 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
509 fixed to avoid this bug.
511 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
513 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
514 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
516 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
517 ========================
518 New, general features
519 ---------------------
520 Maildir-flag synchronization
522 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
523 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
532 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
534 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
535 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
536 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
537 renamed with an 'R' flag).
539 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
540 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
541 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
542 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
545 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
547 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
548 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
549 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
551 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
552 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
554 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
555 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
557 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
558 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
559 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
563 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
565 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
566 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
567 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
568 notmuch_message_get_filename).
570 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
571 message with the new function:
573 notmuch_message_get_filenames
575 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
576 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
577 all available filenames for a given message.
579 New command-line features
580 -------------------------
581 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
583 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
584 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
585 access to the mail store itself.
587 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
588 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
589 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
590 name of a script containing:
592 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
594 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
595 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
600 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
602 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
604 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
606 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
607 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
608 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
609 now produces nothing).
611 Emacs interface improvements
612 ----------------------------
613 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
615 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
617 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
619 Display current thread subject in a header line.
621 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
623 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
625 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
626 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
627 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
628 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
629 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
630 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
631 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
633 Vim interface improvements
634 --------------------------
635 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
637 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
638 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
643 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
645 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
646 ========================
647 New command-line features
648 -------------------------
649 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
651 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
652 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
653 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
655 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
656 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
657 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
658 scripts. For example:
660 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
661 <operations-on> "$file"
664 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
666 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
667 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
668 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
669 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
670 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
671 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
673 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
675 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
676 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
677 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
678 custom items stored in the configuration file.
680 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
682 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
683 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
684 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
685 default rather than Bcc.
689 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
691 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
692 notmuch_query_t object.
696 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
698 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
699 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
700 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
701 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
702 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
703 notmuch customize interface.
705 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
707 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
708 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
709 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
710 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
712 Optional support for detecting inline patches
714 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
715 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
716 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
717 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
719 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
721 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
722 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
723 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
724 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
725 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
726 notmuch customize interface.
728 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
730 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
731 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
732 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
733 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
734 notmuch customize interface.
736 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
738 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
739 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
740 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
741 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
744 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
746 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
747 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
748 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
751 New build-system features
752 -------------------------
753 Various portability fixes have been applied
755 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
756 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
757 more portable than ever before.
759 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
761 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
762 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
763 after installing. This support takes two forms:
765 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
766 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
767 automatically run ldconfig.
769 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
770 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
771 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
773 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
774 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
775 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
776 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
778 Check compiler/linker options before using them
780 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
781 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
782 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
783 used in the resulting Makefile.
785 New test-suite features
786 -----------------------
787 New modularization of test suite.
789 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
790 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
791 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
792 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
793 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
794 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
795 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
796 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
798 New testing of emacs interface.
800 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
801 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
802 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
803 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
804 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
805 database via the FCC setting.
809 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
811 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
812 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
813 persistent error of the form:
815 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
817 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
818 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
820 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
822 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
823 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
824 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
826 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
828 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
829 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
830 parsing the notmuch results).
832 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
834 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
836 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
837 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
838 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
842 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
844 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
845 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
846 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
847 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
850 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
852 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
853 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
854 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
858 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
860 Debian-specific fixes
861 ---------------------
862 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
864 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
865 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
866 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
869 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
870 ==========================
873 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
875 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
876 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
877 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
878 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
880 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
882 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
883 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
884 want notmuch to crash.
888 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
890 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
891 directory does not exist.
895 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
897 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
898 final linking of notmuch would fail.
900 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
901 ========================
902 New command-line features
903 -------------------------
904 User-configurable tags for new messages
906 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
907 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
908 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
909 to specify this value.
911 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
913 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
914 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
915 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
917 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
919 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
920 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
922 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
924 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
925 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
926 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
927 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
928 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
931 Indication of author names that match a search
933 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
934 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
935 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
936 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
937 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
938 messages in the thread are listed first.
942 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
943 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
944 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
945 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
947 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
948 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
949 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
952 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
953 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
954 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
956 Emacs interface improvements
957 ----------------------------
958 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
960 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
961 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
962 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
963 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
964 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
965 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
966 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
967 but without any of the disadvantages).
969 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
970 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
971 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
974 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
975 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
976 recommend instead running something like:
978 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
980 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
981 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
982 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
985 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
987 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
988 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
991 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
992 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
993 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
996 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
997 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
998 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1001 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1003 This support currently relies on an external program,
1004 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1005 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1006 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1007 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1008 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1011 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1012 notmuch) is available via:
1014 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1016 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1017 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1018 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1020 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1022 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1023 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1024 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1025 making this automatic in a future release.
1027 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1029 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1030 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1031 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1032 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1033 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1034 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1037 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1039 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1040 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1041 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1043 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1045 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1046 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1047 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1049 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1050 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1051 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1052 other representation.
1054 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1055 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1058 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1060 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1061 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1062 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1064 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1065 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1066 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1068 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1070 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1071 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1072 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1073 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1074 to display the search result.
1076 More flexible handling of header visibility
1078 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1079 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1080 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1081 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1082 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1083 with the 'h' keybinding.
1085 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1086 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1087 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1089 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1091 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1093 Customizable formatting of search results
1095 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1096 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1097 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1099 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1101 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1103 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1107 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1109 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1110 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1111 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1112 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1117 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1119 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1120 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1122 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1124 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1125 accept are now all accepted.
1129 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1131 Better display of output from failed tests.
1133 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1134 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1136 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1137 ========================
1138 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1139 detailed release notes this time!
1141 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1142 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1144 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1145 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1146 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1147 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1153 Better guessing of From: header.
1155 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1156 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1157 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1158 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1159 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1162 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1164 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1165 guaranteed to match all messages.
1167 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1169 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1170 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1171 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1172 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1173 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1176 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1179 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1180 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1181 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1182 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1186 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1188 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1189 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1190 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1191 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1193 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1195 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1197 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1198 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1199 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1201 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1203 Previously, the user might see:
1205 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1209 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1211 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1212 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1213 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1214 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1216 Emacs client features
1217 ---------------------
1218 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1220 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1221 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1222 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1223 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1224 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1226 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1229 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1230 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1231 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1232 search with the '*' binding.
1234 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1236 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1237 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1240 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1242 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1243 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1244 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1246 Build-system features
1247 ---------------------
1248 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1250 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1252 We include actual support for:
1254 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1256 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1258 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1259 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1261 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1262 separate "make install-emacs".
1264 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1266 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1267 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1268 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1270 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1273 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1274 ========================
1275 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1277 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1278 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1280 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1281 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1282 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1283 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1284 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1285 tags from messages in a thread.