1 Notmuch 0.15 (YYYY-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
9 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
10 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
11 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
12 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
13 but may be removed in a future release.
15 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
17 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
18 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
19 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
24 Date range search support
26 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
27 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
28 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
29 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
30 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
33 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
34 -----------------------------
36 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
37 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
38 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
39 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
40 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
41 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
42 further details and installation.
44 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
45 =========================
50 Maildir tag synchronization
52 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
53 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
54 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
55 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
56 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
57 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
60 Command-Line Interface
61 ----------------------
63 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
64 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
65 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
66 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
67 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
73 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
75 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
77 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
78 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
79 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
81 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
83 It is now possible to embed newlines in
84 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
87 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
89 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
90 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
91 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
92 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
93 inside the result or message.
95 Search now uses the JSON format internally
97 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
98 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
100 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
101 user-specified formatting
103 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
104 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
105 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
106 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
107 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
109 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
110 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
112 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
113 ===========================
118 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
119 compilation error for this contrib package.
121 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
122 ===========================
127 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
129 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
130 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
131 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
132 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
134 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
135 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
138 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
139 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
140 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
141 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
144 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
146 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
149 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
150 =========================
152 Command-Line Interface
153 ----------------------
157 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
158 for a reply message and full information about the original message
159 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
160 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
162 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
163 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
164 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
165 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
169 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
170 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
172 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
173 tag in your query, for example:
175 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
177 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
178 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
180 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
181 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
183 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
185 Raw show format changes
187 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
188 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
189 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
190 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
191 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
192 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
193 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
194 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
196 Listing configuration items
198 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
204 Changes to tagging interface
206 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
207 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
208 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
209 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
210 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
211 for more information.
213 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
214 may need to update in custom configurations.
216 Reply improvement using the JSON format
218 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
219 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
220 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
221 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
224 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
225 -----------------------------
227 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
228 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
229 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
230 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
231 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
232 contrib/ from now on.
237 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
238 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
240 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
241 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
243 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
244 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
245 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
247 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
248 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
250 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
251 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
252 returning the new database object or directory object.
259 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
260 compatible with go 1.
262 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
263 =========================
265 Command-Line Interface
266 ----------------------
270 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
271 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
272 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
273 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
275 Mail store folder/file ignore
277 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
278 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
279 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
281 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
282 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
284 Unified help and manual pages
286 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
287 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
290 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
292 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
293 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
301 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
302 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
303 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
304 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
306 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
308 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
309 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
311 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
314 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
315 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
316 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
318 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
320 should be changed to:
322 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
324 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
326 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
327 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
329 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
331 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
332 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
333 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
334 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
335 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
336 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
340 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
341 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
342 of Mailing List Archives.
344 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
346 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
347 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
350 Show view archiving key binding changes
352 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
353 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
354 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
355 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
356 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
359 Support text/calendar MIME type
361 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
364 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
366 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
367 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
368 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
369 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
371 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
373 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
374 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
375 messages blue by default in the search view.
379 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
380 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
387 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
390 Python bindings changes
391 -----------------------
393 Python 3.2 compatibility
395 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
397 Added missing unicode conversions
399 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
400 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
401 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
406 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
408 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
409 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
410 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
411 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
412 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
414 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
415 ===========================
420 Fix error handling in python bindings
422 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
423 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
424 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
425 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
427 Quote MML tags in replies
429 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
430 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
431 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
432 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
433 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
434 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
435 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
436 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
438 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
439 =========================
441 Command-Line Interface
442 ----------------------
446 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
447 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
448 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
449 importing new messages into the database.
451 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
453 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
454 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
455 sometimes. This is now fixed.
460 Automatic tag query optimization
462 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
463 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
464 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
466 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
468 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
469 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
470 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
475 Reduction of memory leaks
477 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
478 and fixed in this release.
485 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
486 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
487 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
490 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
492 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
493 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
494 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
497 Improvements in saved search management
499 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
500 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
501 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
503 Hooks for notmuch-hello
505 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
506 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
507 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
509 New face for crypto parts headers
511 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
512 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
513 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
516 Use space as default thousands separator
518 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
519 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
520 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
522 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
525 New function notmuch-show-advance
527 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
528 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
529 be bound to SPC with:
531 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
533 Various performance improvements
538 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
539 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
542 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
543 ===========================
548 Fix crash in python bindings
550 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
551 for some, but not all users.
553 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
554 ===========================
559 Fix `--help` argument
561 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
562 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
563 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
565 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
566 =========================
568 New build and testing features
569 ------------------------------
571 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
572 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
573 prerequisites is improved.
575 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
577 New command-line features
578 -------------------------
580 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
582 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
583 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
586 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
588 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
589 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
590 favour of using stdout.
592 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
594 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
595 limit the number of results shown.
597 Add `notmuch count --output` option
599 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
600 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
603 New emacs UI features
604 ---------------------
606 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
608 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
609 starting with "tag:".
611 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
613 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
614 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
616 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
618 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
620 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
622 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
623 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
628 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
630 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
632 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
633 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
634 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
635 requires a database rebuild:
637 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
638 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
640 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
642 New collection of add-on tools
643 ------------------------------
645 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
646 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
647 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
650 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
652 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
653 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
654 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
656 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
657 ========================
659 New, general features
660 ---------------------
662 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
664 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
665 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
666 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
667 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
668 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
675 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
676 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
678 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
682 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
683 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
684 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
687 Python bindings changes
688 -----------------------
690 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
692 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
693 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
694 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
695 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
696 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
697 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
699 Ruby bindings changes
700 ---------------------
702 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
703 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
704 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
705 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
710 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
712 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
713 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
715 Reply formatting cleanup
716 ------------------------
718 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
719 MIME parts are being suppressed.
721 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
722 ========================
724 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
726 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
727 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
728 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
729 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
732 Improved Build system portability
734 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
735 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
736 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
738 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
740 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
742 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
744 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
745 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
746 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
748 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
749 ========================
751 Vim interface improvements
752 --------------------------
754 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
756 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
757 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
758 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
759 * fix from list reformatting in search view
760 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
762 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
764 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
765 * fix compose temp file name
767 Python Bindings changes
768 -----------------------
770 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
772 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
773 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
775 Build-System improvements
776 -------------------------
778 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
780 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
783 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
784 ==========================
789 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
791 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
792 people running gcc 4.4.5.
794 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
795 =======================
797 New, general features
798 ---------------------
800 Folder-based searching
802 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
803 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
804 storage). The syntax is as follows:
808 For example, one might use things such as:
814 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
815 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
817 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
818 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
819 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
820 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
822 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
823 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
824 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
827 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
828 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
830 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
834 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
835 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
836 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
838 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
840 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
841 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
843 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
844 notmuch will receive these tags.
846 New command-line features
847 -------------------------
849 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
851 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
852 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
854 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
856 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
857 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
858 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
860 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
862 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
863 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
864 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
865 which parts a signature part applies).
867 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
869 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
870 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
871 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
872 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
873 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
876 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
878 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
879 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
880 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
881 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
882 by translating it internally to the new call.
884 Performance improvements
885 ------------------------
887 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
889 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
890 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
891 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
893 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
894 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
896 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
898 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
899 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
900 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
902 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
903 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
904 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
905 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
907 Faster initial indexing
909 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
910 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
911 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
913 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
915 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
916 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
917 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
918 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
920 New emacs-interface features
921 ----------------------------
923 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
925 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
926 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
927 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
928 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
929 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
930 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
932 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
934 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
935 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
936 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
937 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
939 User-selectable From address
941 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
942 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
943 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
944 will prompt for the from address to use.
946 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
947 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
948 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
950 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
951 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
952 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
955 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
957 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
958 its parent, the subject is not shown.
960 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
962 When a message contains a line looking something like:
964 ----- Original Message -----
966 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
967 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
968 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
969 citations work much like conventional citations.
971 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
973 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
974 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
975 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
976 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
977 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
979 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
980 Notmuch After Tag Hook
982 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
984 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
985 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
986 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
988 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
990 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
991 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
992 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
993 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
994 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
996 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
998 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1001 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1003 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1005 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1007 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1010 Vim interface improvements
1011 --------------------------
1013 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1015 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1016 * Implementing archive in show view
1017 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1018 * Add delete commands
1021 Bindings improvements
1022 ---------------------
1024 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1026 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1027 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1029 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1031 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1035 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1036 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1037 `list(Messages)` works now
1038 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1040 These allow, for example:
1042 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1044 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1046 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1052 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1054 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1057 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1059 New build-system features
1060 -------------------------
1062 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1064 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1065 the configure script from some other directory:
1072 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1074 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1075 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1076 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1077 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1078 manual invocation of configure.
1080 New test-suite feature
1081 ----------------------
1083 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1085 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1086 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1087 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1088 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1089 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1092 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1094 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1095 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1096 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1097 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1098 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1099 are updated to take advantage of this.
1101 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1103 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1104 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1105 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1106 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1112 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1114 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1115 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1116 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1118 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1120 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1122 to:user@elsewhere.com
1124 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1126 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1128 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1130 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1131 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1132 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1135 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1136 from the Received headers in some cases
1138 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1139 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1141 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1143 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1145 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1147 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1148 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1149 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1151 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1152 -------------------------
1154 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1156 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1157 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1158 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1160 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1162 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1163 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1164 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1167 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1169 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1170 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1171 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1172 fixed to avoid this bug.
1174 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1176 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1177 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1179 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1180 ========================
1182 New, general features
1183 ---------------------
1185 Maildir-flag synchronization
1187 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1188 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1197 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1199 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1200 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1201 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1202 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1204 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1205 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1206 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1207 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1210 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1212 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1213 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1214 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1216 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1217 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1219 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1220 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1222 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1223 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1224 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1226 New library features
1227 --------------------
1229 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1231 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1232 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1233 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1234 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1236 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1237 message with the new function:
1239 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1241 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1242 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1243 over all available filenames for a given message.
1245 New command-line features
1246 -------------------------
1248 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1250 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1251 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1252 access to the mail store itself.
1254 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1255 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1256 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1257 name of a script containing:
1259 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1261 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1262 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1268 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1270 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1272 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1274 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1275 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1276 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1277 now produces nothing).
1279 Emacs interface improvements
1280 ----------------------------
1282 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1284 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1286 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1288 Display current thread subject in a header line
1290 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1292 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1294 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1295 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1296 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1297 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1298 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1299 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1300 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1302 Vim interface improvements
1303 --------------------------
1305 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1307 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1308 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1314 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1316 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1317 ========================
1319 New command-line features
1320 -------------------------
1322 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1324 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1325 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1326 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1328 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1329 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1330 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1331 scripts. For example:
1333 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1334 <operations-on> "$file"
1337 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1339 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1340 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1341 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1342 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1343 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1344 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1346 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1348 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1349 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1350 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1351 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1353 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1355 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1356 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1357 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1358 default rather than Bcc.
1360 New library features
1361 --------------------
1363 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1365 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1366 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1371 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1373 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1374 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1375 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1376 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1377 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1378 notmuch customize interface.
1380 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1382 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1383 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1384 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1385 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1387 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1389 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1390 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1391 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1392 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1394 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1396 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1397 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1398 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1399 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1400 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1401 notmuch customize interface.
1403 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1405 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1406 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1407 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1408 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1409 notmuch customize interface.
1411 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1413 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1414 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1415 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1416 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1419 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1421 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1422 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1423 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1426 New build-system features
1427 -------------------------
1429 Various portability fixes have been applied
1431 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1432 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1433 more portable than ever before.
1435 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1437 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1438 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1439 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1441 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1442 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1443 automatically run ldconfig.
1445 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1446 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1447 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1449 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1450 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1451 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1452 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1454 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1456 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1457 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1458 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1459 used in the resulting Makefile.
1461 New test-suite features
1462 -----------------------
1464 New modularization of test suite
1466 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1467 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1468 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1469 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1470 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1471 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1472 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1473 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1475 New testing of emacs interface
1477 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1478 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1479 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1480 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1481 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1482 database via the FCC setting.
1487 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1489 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1490 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1491 persistent error of the form:
1493 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1495 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1496 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1498 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1500 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1501 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1502 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1504 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1506 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1507 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1508 parsing the notmuch results).
1510 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1512 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1515 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1516 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1517 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1522 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1524 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1525 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1526 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1527 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1528 the emacs interface.
1530 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1532 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1533 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1534 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1536 Python-binding fixes
1537 --------------------
1539 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1541 Debian-specific fixes
1542 ---------------------
1544 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1546 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1547 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1548 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1551 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1552 ==========================
1557 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1559 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1560 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1561 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1562 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1564 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1566 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1567 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1568 want notmuch to crash.
1573 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1575 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1576 directory does not exist
1581 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1583 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1584 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1586 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1587 ========================
1589 New command-line features
1590 -------------------------
1592 User-configurable tags for new messages
1594 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1595 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1596 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1597 to specify this value.
1599 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1601 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1602 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1603 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1605 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1607 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1608 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1610 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1612 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1613 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1614 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1615 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1616 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1619 Indication of author names that match a search
1621 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1622 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1623 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1624 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1625 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1626 messages in the thread are listed first.
1628 New: Python bindings
1629 --------------------
1631 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1632 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1633 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1634 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1636 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1637 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1638 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1641 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1642 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1643 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1645 Emacs interface improvements
1646 ----------------------------
1648 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1650 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1651 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1652 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1653 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1654 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1655 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1656 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1657 but without any of the disadvantages).
1659 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1660 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1661 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1664 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1665 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1666 instead running something like:
1668 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1670 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1671 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1672 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1675 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1677 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1678 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1679 tweaked by the user.
1681 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1682 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1683 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1686 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1687 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1688 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1691 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1693 This support currently relies on an external program,
1694 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1695 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1696 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1697 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1698 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1701 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1702 notmuch) is available via:
1704 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1706 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1707 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1708 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1710 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1712 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1713 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1714 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1715 making this automatic in a future release.
1717 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1719 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1720 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1721 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1722 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1723 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1724 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1727 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
1729 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1730 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1731 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1733 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1735 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1736 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1737 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1739 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1740 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1741 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1742 other representation.
1744 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1745 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1748 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1750 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1751 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1752 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1754 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1755 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1756 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1758 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1760 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1761 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1762 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1763 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1764 to display the search result.
1766 More flexible handling of header visibility
1768 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1769 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1770 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1771 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1772 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1773 with the 'h' keybinding.
1775 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1776 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1777 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1779 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1781 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1783 Customizable formatting of search results
1785 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1786 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1787 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1789 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
1791 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
1793 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
1798 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
1800 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1801 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1802 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1803 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1809 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1811 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1812 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1814 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
1816 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1817 accept are now all accepted.
1822 A large number of new tests for the many new features
1824 Better display of output from failed tests
1826 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1827 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1829 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1830 ========================
1832 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1833 detailed release notes this time!
1835 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1836 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1838 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1839 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1840 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1841 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1848 Better guessing of From: header
1850 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1851 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1852 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1853 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1854 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1857 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1859 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1860 guaranteed to match all messages.
1862 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
1864 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1865 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1866 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1867 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1868 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1871 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1874 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1875 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1876 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1877 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1882 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1884 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1885 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1886 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1887 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1889 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
1891 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1893 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1894 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1895 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1897 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1899 Previously, the user might see:
1901 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1905 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1907 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1908 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1909 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1910 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1912 Emacs client features
1913 ---------------------
1915 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
1917 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1918 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1919 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1920 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1921 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1923 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1926 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1927 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1928 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1929 search with the '*' binding.
1931 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
1933 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1934 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1937 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
1939 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1940 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1941 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1943 Build-system features
1944 ---------------------
1946 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
1948 Add support to configure for many standard options
1950 We include actual support for:
1952 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1954 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1956 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1957 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1959 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1960 separate "make install-emacs"
1962 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
1964 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1965 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1966 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1968 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
1971 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1972 ========================
1974 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1976 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1977 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1979 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1980 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1981 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1982 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1983 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1984 tags from messages in a thread.
1991 indent-tabs-mode: nil