1 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD)
2 =========================
7 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
9 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
10 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
11 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
12 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
13 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
16 `notmuch count --batch` option
18 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
19 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
21 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
23 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
24 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
26 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
28 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
29 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
30 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
33 Top level option to specify configuration file
35 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
36 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
38 Top level option to redirect writes to stderr
40 With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to
41 the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout.
43 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
45 Bash command-line completion
47 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
48 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
49 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
50 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
51 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
52 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
53 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
54 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
55 bash-completion package.
60 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
61 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
66 New keymap to view/save parts
68 To view or save a single MIME part of a message, use the new "."
69 submap (e.g., ". s" to save, ". v" to view). Previously, these keys
70 were only available when point was on a part button and they did not
71 have the "." prefix, so they were difficult to invoke (impossible if
72 a part did not have a button) and clashed with other bindings.
73 These new bindings also appear in show's help, so you don't have to
76 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
78 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
79 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
80 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
82 Better handling of errors in search buffers
84 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
85 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
89 Communication between search mode and the notmuch CLI is now more
90 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
91 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster.
95 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
96 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
97 in question was now removed from this release.
99 Key bindings for next/previous thread
101 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
102 previous thread in the search results.
104 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
105 ===========================
110 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
112 Internal test framework changes
113 -------------------------------
115 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
118 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
119 ===========================
121 Internal test framework changes
122 -------------------------------
124 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
125 build failures in non-interactive environments.
127 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
128 =========================
133 Date range search support
135 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
136 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
137 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
138 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
139 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
142 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
144 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
145 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
146 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
147 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
148 but may be removed in a future release.
150 Command-Line Interface
151 ----------------------
153 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
155 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
156 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
158 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
160 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
161 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
162 officially deprecated.
164 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
166 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
167 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
168 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
170 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
172 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
173 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
176 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
177 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
180 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
182 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
183 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
184 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
186 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
188 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
189 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
190 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
192 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
194 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
195 output separated by null characters rather than newline
196 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
197 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
202 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
204 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
205 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
206 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
207 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
209 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
211 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
212 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
213 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
214 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
215 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
216 the behavior of this, see
217 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
218 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
220 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
221 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
222 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
224 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
226 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
227 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
230 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
232 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
233 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
234 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
235 simply displayed in place of the message.
237 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
239 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
240 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
242 Improved text/calendar content handling
244 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
245 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
246 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
247 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
249 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
251 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
252 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
253 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
254 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
256 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
258 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
259 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
260 for HTML email containing images.
262 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
264 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
266 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
268 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
271 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
273 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
274 the point where it was.
276 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
278 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
279 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
280 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
281 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
282 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
284 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
286 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
287 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
288 thread instead of the message id.
290 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
291 -----------------------------
293 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
294 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
295 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
296 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
297 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
298 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
299 further details and installation.
304 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
306 Internal test framework changes
307 -------------------------------
309 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
311 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
312 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
313 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
314 can result in buggy behavior.
316 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
317 =========================
322 Maildir tag synchronization
324 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
325 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
326 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
327 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
328 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
329 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
332 Command-Line Interface
333 ----------------------
335 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
336 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
337 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
338 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
339 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
345 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
347 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
349 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
350 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
351 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
353 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
355 It is now possible to embed newlines in
356 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
359 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
361 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
362 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
363 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
364 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
365 inside the result or message.
367 Search now uses the JSON format internally
369 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
370 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
372 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
373 user-specified formatting
375 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
376 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
377 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
378 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
379 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
381 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
382 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
384 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
385 ===========================
390 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
391 compilation error for this contrib package.
393 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
394 ===========================
399 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
401 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
402 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
403 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
404 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
406 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
407 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
410 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
411 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
412 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
413 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
416 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
418 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
421 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
422 =========================
424 Command-Line Interface
425 ----------------------
429 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
430 for a reply message and full information about the original message
431 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
432 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
434 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
435 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
436 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
437 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
441 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
442 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
444 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
445 tag in your query, for example:
447 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
449 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
450 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
452 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
453 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
455 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
457 Raw show format changes
459 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
460 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
461 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
462 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
463 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
464 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
465 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
466 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
468 Listing configuration items
470 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
476 Changes to tagging interface
478 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
479 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
480 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
481 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
482 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
483 for more information.
485 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
486 may need to update in custom configurations.
488 Reply improvement using the JSON format
490 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
491 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
492 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
493 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
496 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
497 -----------------------------
499 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
500 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
501 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
502 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
503 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
504 contrib/ from now on.
509 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
510 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
512 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
513 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
515 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
516 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
517 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
519 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
520 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
522 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
523 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
524 returning the new database object or directory object.
531 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
532 compatible with go 1.
534 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
535 =========================
537 Command-Line Interface
538 ----------------------
542 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
543 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
544 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
545 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
547 Mail store folder/file ignore
549 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
550 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
551 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
553 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
554 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
556 Unified help and manual pages
558 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
559 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
562 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
564 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
565 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
573 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
574 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
575 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
576 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
578 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
580 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
581 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
583 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
586 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
587 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
588 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
590 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
592 should be changed to:
594 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
596 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
598 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
599 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
601 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
603 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
604 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
605 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
606 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
607 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
608 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
612 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
613 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
614 of Mailing List Archives.
616 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
618 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
619 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
622 Show view archiving key binding changes
624 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
625 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
626 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
627 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
628 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
631 Support text/calendar MIME type
633 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
636 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
638 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
639 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
640 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
641 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
643 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
645 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
646 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
647 messages blue by default in the search view.
651 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
652 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
659 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
662 Python bindings changes
663 -----------------------
665 Python 3.2 compatibility
667 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
669 Added missing unicode conversions
671 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
672 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
673 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
678 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
680 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
681 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
682 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
683 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
684 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
686 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
687 ===========================
692 Fix error handling in python bindings
694 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
695 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
696 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
697 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
699 Quote MML tags in replies
701 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
702 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
703 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
704 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
705 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
706 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
707 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
708 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
710 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
711 =========================
713 Command-Line Interface
714 ----------------------
718 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
719 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
720 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
721 importing new messages into the database.
723 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
725 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
726 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
727 sometimes. This is now fixed.
732 Automatic tag query optimization
734 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
735 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
736 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
738 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
740 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
741 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
742 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
747 Reduction of memory leaks
749 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
750 and fixed in this release.
757 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
758 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
759 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
762 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
764 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
765 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
766 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
769 Improvements in saved search management
771 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
772 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
773 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
775 Hooks for notmuch-hello
777 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
778 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
779 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
781 New face for crypto parts headers
783 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
784 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
785 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
788 Use space as default thousands separator
790 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
791 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
792 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
794 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
797 New function notmuch-show-advance
799 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
800 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
801 be bound to SPC with:
803 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
805 Various performance improvements
810 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
811 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
814 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
815 ===========================
820 Fix crash in python bindings
822 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
823 for some, but not all users.
825 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
826 ===========================
831 Fix `--help` argument
833 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
834 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
835 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
837 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
838 =========================
840 New build and testing features
841 ------------------------------
843 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
844 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
845 prerequisites is improved.
847 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
849 New command-line features
850 -------------------------
852 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
854 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
855 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
858 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
860 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
861 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
862 favour of using stdout.
864 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
866 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
867 limit the number of results shown.
869 Add `notmuch count --output` option
871 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
872 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
875 New emacs UI features
876 ---------------------
878 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
880 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
881 starting with "tag:".
883 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
885 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
886 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
888 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
890 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
892 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
894 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
895 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
900 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
902 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
904 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
905 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
906 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
907 requires a database rebuild:
909 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
910 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
912 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
914 New collection of add-on tools
915 ------------------------------
917 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
918 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
919 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
922 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
924 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
925 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
926 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
928 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
929 ========================
931 New, general features
932 ---------------------
934 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
936 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
937 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
938 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
939 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
940 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
947 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
948 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
950 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
954 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
955 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
956 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
959 Python bindings changes
960 -----------------------
962 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
964 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
965 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
966 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
967 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
968 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
969 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
971 Ruby bindings changes
972 ---------------------
974 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
975 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
976 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
977 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
982 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
984 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
985 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
987 Reply formatting cleanup
988 ------------------------
990 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
991 MIME parts are being suppressed.
993 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
994 ========================
996 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
998 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
999 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1000 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1001 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1004 Improved Build system portability
1006 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1007 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1008 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1010 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1012 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1014 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1016 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1017 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1018 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1020 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1021 ========================
1023 Vim interface improvements
1024 --------------------------
1026 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1028 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1029 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1030 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1031 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1032 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1034 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1036 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1037 * fix compose temp file name
1039 Python Bindings changes
1040 -----------------------
1042 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1044 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1045 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1047 Build-System improvements
1048 -------------------------
1050 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1052 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1055 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1056 ==========================
1061 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1063 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1064 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1066 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1067 =======================
1069 New, general features
1070 ---------------------
1072 Folder-based searching
1074 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1075 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1076 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1080 For example, one might use things such as:
1086 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1087 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1089 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1090 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1091 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1092 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1094 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1095 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1096 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1099 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1100 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1102 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1104 Support for PGP/MIME
1106 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1107 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1108 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1110 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1112 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1113 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1115 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1116 notmuch will receive these tags.
1118 New command-line features
1119 -------------------------
1121 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1123 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1124 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1126 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1128 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1129 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1130 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1132 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1134 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1135 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1136 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1137 which parts a signature part applies).
1139 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1141 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1142 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1143 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1144 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1145 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1148 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1150 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1151 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1152 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1153 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1154 by translating it internally to the new call.
1156 Performance improvements
1157 ------------------------
1159 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1161 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1162 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1163 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1165 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1166 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1168 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1170 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1171 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1172 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1174 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1175 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1176 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1177 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1179 Faster initial indexing
1181 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1182 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1183 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1185 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1187 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1188 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1189 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1190 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1192 New emacs-interface features
1193 ----------------------------
1195 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1197 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1198 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1199 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1200 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1201 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1202 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1204 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1206 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1207 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1208 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1209 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1211 User-selectable From address
1213 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1214 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1215 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1216 will prompt for the from address to use.
1218 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1219 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1220 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1222 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1223 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1224 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1227 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1229 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1230 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1232 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1234 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1236 ----- Original Message -----
1238 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1239 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1240 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1241 citations work much like conventional citations.
1243 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1245 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1246 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1247 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1248 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1249 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1251 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1252 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1254 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1256 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1257 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1258 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1260 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1262 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1263 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1264 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1265 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1266 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1268 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1270 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1273 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1275 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1277 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1279 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1282 Vim interface improvements
1283 --------------------------
1285 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1287 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1288 * Implementing archive in show view
1289 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1290 * Add delete commands
1293 Bindings improvements
1294 ---------------------
1296 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1298 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1299 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1301 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1303 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1307 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1308 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1309 `list(Messages)` works now
1310 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1312 These allow, for example:
1314 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1316 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1318 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1324 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1326 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1329 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1331 New build-system features
1332 -------------------------
1334 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1336 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1337 the configure script from some other directory:
1344 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1346 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1347 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1348 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1349 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1350 manual invocation of configure.
1352 New test-suite feature
1353 ----------------------
1355 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1357 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1358 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1359 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1360 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1361 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1364 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1366 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1367 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1368 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1369 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1370 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1371 are updated to take advantage of this.
1373 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1375 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1376 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1377 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1378 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1384 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1386 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1387 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1388 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1390 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1392 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1394 to:user@elsewhere.com
1396 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1398 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1400 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1402 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1403 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1404 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1407 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1408 from the Received headers in some cases
1410 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1411 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1413 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1415 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1417 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1419 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1420 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1421 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1423 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1424 -------------------------
1426 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1428 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1429 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1430 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1432 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1434 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1435 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1436 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1439 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1441 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1442 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1443 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1444 fixed to avoid this bug.
1446 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1448 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1449 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1451 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1452 ========================
1454 New, general features
1455 ---------------------
1457 Maildir-flag synchronization
1459 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1460 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1469 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1471 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1472 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1473 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1474 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1476 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1477 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1478 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1479 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1482 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1484 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1485 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1486 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1488 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1489 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1491 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1492 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1494 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1495 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1496 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1498 New library features
1499 --------------------
1501 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1503 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1504 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1505 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1506 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1508 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1509 message with the new function:
1511 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1513 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1514 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1515 over all available filenames for a given message.
1517 New command-line features
1518 -------------------------
1520 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1522 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1523 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
1524 access to the mail store itself.
1526 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
1527 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
1528 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
1529 name of a script containing:
1531 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
1533 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
1534 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
1540 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
1542 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
1544 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
1546 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
1547 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
1548 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
1549 now produces nothing).
1551 Emacs interface improvements
1552 ----------------------------
1554 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
1556 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
1558 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
1560 Display current thread subject in a header line
1562 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
1564 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
1566 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
1567 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
1568 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
1569 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
1570 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
1571 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
1572 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
1574 Vim interface improvements
1575 --------------------------
1577 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
1579 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
1580 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
1586 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
1588 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
1589 ========================
1591 New command-line features
1592 -------------------------
1594 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
1596 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
1597 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
1598 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
1600 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
1601 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
1602 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
1603 scripts. For example:
1605 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
1606 <operations-on> "$file"
1609 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
1611 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
1612 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
1613 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
1614 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
1615 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
1616 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
1618 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
1620 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
1621 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
1622 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
1623 custom items stored in the configuration file.
1625 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
1627 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
1628 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
1629 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
1630 default rather than Bcc.
1632 New library features
1633 --------------------
1635 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
1637 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1638 `notmuch_query_t` object.
1643 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1645 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1646 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1647 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1648 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1649 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1650 notmuch customize interface.
1652 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1654 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1655 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1656 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1657 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1659 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1661 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1662 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1663 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1664 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1666 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1668 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1669 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1670 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1671 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1672 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1673 notmuch customize interface.
1675 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1677 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1678 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1679 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1680 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1681 notmuch customize interface.
1683 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
1685 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1686 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1687 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1688 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1691 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1693 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1694 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1695 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1698 New build-system features
1699 -------------------------
1701 Various portability fixes have been applied
1703 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1704 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1705 more portable than ever before.
1707 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1709 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1710 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1711 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1713 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1714 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1715 automatically run ldconfig.
1717 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1718 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
1719 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1721 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1722 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1723 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1724 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
1726 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1728 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1729 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1730 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1731 used in the resulting Makefile.
1733 New test-suite features
1734 -----------------------
1736 New modularization of test suite
1738 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1739 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1740 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1741 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1742 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1743 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1744 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1745 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1747 New testing of emacs interface
1749 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1750 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1751 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1752 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1753 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1754 database via the FCC setting.
1759 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
1761 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1762 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1763 persistent error of the form:
1765 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1767 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1768 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1770 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
1772 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1773 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1774 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1776 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1778 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1779 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1780 parsing the notmuch results).
1782 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
1784 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
1787 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1788 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1789 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1794 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1796 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1797 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1798 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1799 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1800 the emacs interface.
1802 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1804 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1805 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1806 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1808 Python-binding fixes
1809 --------------------
1811 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1813 Debian-specific fixes
1814 ---------------------
1816 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
1818 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1819 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1820 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1823 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1824 ==========================
1829 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1831 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1832 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1833 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1834 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1836 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1838 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1839 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1840 want notmuch to crash.
1845 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
1847 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1848 directory does not exist
1853 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
1855 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1856 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1858 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1859 ========================
1861 New command-line features
1862 -------------------------
1864 User-configurable tags for new messages
1866 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1867 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1868 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1869 to specify this value.
1871 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1873 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1874 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1875 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1877 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1879 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1880 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1882 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1884 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1885 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1886 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1887 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1888 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1891 Indication of author names that match a search
1893 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1894 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1895 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1896 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1897 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1898 messages in the thread are listed first.
1900 New: Python bindings
1901 --------------------
1903 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1904 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1905 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1906 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1908 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1909 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1910 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1913 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1914 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1915 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1917 Emacs interface improvements
1918 ----------------------------
1920 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1922 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1923 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1924 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1925 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1926 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1927 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1928 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1929 but without any of the disadvantages).
1931 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1932 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1933 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1936 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1937 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
1938 instead running something like:
1940 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1942 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1943 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1944 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1947 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1949 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1950 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1951 tweaked by the user.
1953 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1954 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1955 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1958 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1959 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1960 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1963 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1965 This support currently relies on an external program,
1966 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1967 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1968 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1969 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1970 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1973 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1974 notmuch) is available via:
1976 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1978 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1979 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1980 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1982 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1984 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1985 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1986 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1987 making this automatic in a future release.
1989 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1991 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1992 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1993 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1994 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1995 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1996 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1999 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2001 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2002 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2003 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2005 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2007 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2008 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2009 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2011 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2012 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2013 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2014 other representation.
2016 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2017 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2020 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2022 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2023 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2024 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2026 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2027 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2028 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2030 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2032 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2033 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2034 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2035 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2036 to display the search result.
2038 More flexible handling of header visibility
2040 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2041 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2042 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2043 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2044 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2045 with the 'h' keybinding.
2047 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2048 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2049 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2051 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2053 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2055 Customizable formatting of search results
2057 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2058 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2059 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2061 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2063 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2065 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2070 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2072 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2073 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2074 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2075 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2081 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2083 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2084 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2086 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2088 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2089 accept are now all accepted.
2094 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2096 Better display of output from failed tests
2098 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2099 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2101 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2102 ========================
2104 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2105 detailed release notes this time!
2107 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2108 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2110 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2111 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2112 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2113 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2120 Better guessing of From: header
2122 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2123 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2124 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2125 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2126 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2129 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2131 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2132 guaranteed to match all messages.
2134 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2136 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2137 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2138 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2139 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2140 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2143 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2146 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2147 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2148 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2149 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2154 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2156 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2157 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2158 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2159 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2161 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2163 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2165 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2166 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2167 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2169 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2171 Previously, the user might see:
2173 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2177 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2179 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2180 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2181 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2182 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2184 Emacs client features
2185 ---------------------
2187 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2189 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2190 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2191 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2192 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2193 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2195 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2198 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2199 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2200 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2201 search with the '*' binding.
2203 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2205 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2206 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2209 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2211 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2212 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2213 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2215 Build-system features
2216 ---------------------
2218 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2220 Add support to configure for many standard options
2222 We include actual support for:
2224 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2226 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2228 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2229 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2231 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2232 separate "make install-emacs"
2234 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2236 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2237 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2238 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2240 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2243 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2244 ========================
2246 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2248 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2249 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2251 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2252 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2253 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2254 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2255 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2256 tags from messages in a thread.
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