1 Notmuch 0.18.1~rc0 (2014-06-22)
2 ===============================
4 This is a bug fix and portability release.
9 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc.
11 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs.
13 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH.
15 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
17 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
23 Use --quick when starting emacs
25 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
27 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
29 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
31 Command-Line Interface
32 ----------------------
34 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
35 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
40 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
42 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
43 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
45 Fix for phrase indexing
47 There were several bugs involving overlapping "phrases" accross
48 header and mime part boundaries. This fix will effect only newly
49 (re)-indexed messages.
54 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
56 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
57 unintentionally removed.
60 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
61 =========================
66 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
67 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
68 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
69 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
70 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
71 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
72 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
73 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
74 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
80 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
82 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
83 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
84 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
85 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
86 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
87 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
88 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
89 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
91 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
93 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
94 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
95 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
96 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
99 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
101 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
102 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
103 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
104 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
105 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
106 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
107 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
112 Notmuch database upgrade
114 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
115 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
116 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
117 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
118 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
119 released version of Notmuch before now.
121 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
123 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
124 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
125 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
126 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
128 Message header parsing changes
130 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
131 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
132 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
133 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
134 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
135 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
137 Command-Line Interface
138 ----------------------
140 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
142 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
144 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
146 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
148 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
150 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
151 user does not want it.
153 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
155 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
156 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
157 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
158 support formatted output.
160 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
162 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
163 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
164 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
172 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
173 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
174 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
175 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
176 `~/.emacs` with these.
178 Changed format for saved searches
180 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
181 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
182 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
183 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
186 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
187 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
188 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
189 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
191 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
192 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
193 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
195 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
196 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
197 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
198 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
199 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
201 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
203 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
204 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
205 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
207 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
209 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
210 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
211 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
212 message had been unread).
214 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
215 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
216 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
217 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
219 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
220 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
221 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
223 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
224 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
225 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
226 to tags already present.
230 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
231 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
232 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
233 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
234 these differ from each other.
235 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
237 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
239 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
240 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
241 for these Emacs versions.
243 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
245 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
246 newlines before calling notmuch count.
248 Bug fixes for sender identities
250 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
251 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
252 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
254 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
256 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
257 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
258 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
259 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
261 Reply pushes mark before signature
263 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
264 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
265 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
267 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
269 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
270 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
276 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
277 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
279 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
280 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
281 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
282 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
284 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
285 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
286 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
287 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
288 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
290 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
292 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
293 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
295 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
296 =========================
298 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
299 ---------------------------------------
301 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
302 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
303 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
304 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
305 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
306 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
307 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
311 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
312 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
314 Command-Line Interface
315 ----------------------
317 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
319 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
320 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
321 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
322 print for each message.
324 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
325 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
326 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
327 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
329 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
331 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
332 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
333 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
335 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
337 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
338 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
339 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
340 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
342 `notmuch compact` command
344 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
345 functionality through a more convenient interface than
346 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
347 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
348 move the compacted database into place.
353 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
355 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
356 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
357 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
358 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
359 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
360 and multiple threads.
364 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
366 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
367 search, show and tree mode itself)
369 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
372 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
373 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
375 Customising `notmuch-tree`
377 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
378 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
379 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
380 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
381 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
382 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
383 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
385 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
387 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
388 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
389 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
390 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
391 thread when the search was performed.
393 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
395 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
396 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
397 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
399 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
401 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
402 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
405 Built-in help improvements
407 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
408 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
409 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
411 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
413 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
414 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
415 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
417 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
419 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
420 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
422 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
424 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
425 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
426 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
427 to move some of them to the common keymap.
429 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
431 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
432 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
433 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
434 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
436 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
438 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
439 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
440 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
442 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
444 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
445 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
446 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
448 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
450 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
451 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
452 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
453 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
454 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
456 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
458 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
459 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
460 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
461 the body part of the message.
466 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
467 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
468 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
470 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
471 =========================
473 Command-Line Interface
474 ----------------------
476 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
478 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
479 folder and notmuch index.
481 `notmuch count --batch` option
483 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
484 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
486 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
488 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
489 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
490 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
493 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
495 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
496 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
497 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
498 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
499 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
502 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
504 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
505 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
507 Top level option to specify configuration file
509 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
510 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
512 Bash command-line completion
514 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
515 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
516 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
517 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
518 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
519 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
520 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
521 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
522 bash-completion package.
524 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
529 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
531 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
532 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
533 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
534 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
535 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
536 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
537 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
538 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
540 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
542 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
543 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
544 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
546 Key bindings for next/previous thread
548 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
549 previous thread in the search results.
551 Better handling of errors in search buffers
553 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
554 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
556 Faster search and show
558 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
559 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
560 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
561 threads should show faster.
565 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
566 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
567 in question was now removed from this release.
572 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
573 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
578 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
580 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
581 ===========================
586 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
588 Internal test framework changes
589 -------------------------------
591 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
594 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
595 ===========================
597 Internal test framework changes
598 -------------------------------
600 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
601 build failures in non-interactive environments.
603 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
604 =========================
609 Date range search support
611 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
612 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
613 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
614 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
615 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
618 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
620 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
621 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
622 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
623 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
624 but may be removed in a future release.
626 Command-Line Interface
627 ----------------------
629 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
631 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
632 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
634 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
636 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
637 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
638 officially deprecated.
640 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
642 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
643 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
644 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
646 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
648 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
649 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
652 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
653 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
656 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
658 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
659 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
660 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
662 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
664 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
665 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
666 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
668 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
670 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
671 output separated by null characters rather than newline
672 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
673 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
678 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
680 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
681 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
682 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
683 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
685 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
687 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
688 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
689 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
690 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
691 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
692 the behavior of this, see
693 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
694 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
696 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
697 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
698 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
700 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
702 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
703 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
706 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
708 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
709 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
710 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
711 simply displayed in place of the message.
713 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
715 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
716 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
718 Improved text/calendar content handling
720 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
721 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
722 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
723 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
725 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
727 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
728 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
729 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
730 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
732 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
734 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
735 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
736 for HTML email containing images.
738 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
740 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
742 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
744 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
747 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
749 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
750 the point where it was.
752 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
754 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
755 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
756 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
757 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
758 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
760 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
762 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
763 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
764 thread instead of the message id.
766 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
767 -----------------------------
769 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
770 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
771 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
772 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
773 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
774 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
775 further details and installation.
780 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
782 Internal test framework changes
783 -------------------------------
785 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
787 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
788 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
789 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
790 can result in buggy behavior.
792 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
793 =========================
798 Maildir tag synchronization
800 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
801 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
802 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
803 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
804 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
805 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
808 Command-Line Interface
809 ----------------------
811 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
812 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
813 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
814 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
815 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
821 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
823 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
825 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
826 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
827 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
829 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
831 It is now possible to embed newlines in
832 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
835 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
837 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
838 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
839 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
840 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
841 inside the result or message.
843 Search now uses the JSON format internally
845 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
846 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
848 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
849 user-specified formatting
851 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
852 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
853 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
854 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
855 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
857 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
858 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
860 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
861 ===========================
866 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
867 compilation error for this contrib package.
869 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
870 ===========================
875 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
877 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
878 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
879 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
880 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
882 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
883 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
886 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
887 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
888 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
889 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
892 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
894 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
897 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
898 =========================
900 Command-Line Interface
901 ----------------------
905 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
906 for a reply message and full information about the original message
907 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
908 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
910 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
911 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
912 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
913 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
917 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
918 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
920 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
921 tag in your query, for example:
923 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
925 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
926 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
928 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
929 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
931 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
933 Raw show format changes
935 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
936 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
937 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
938 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
939 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
940 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
941 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
942 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
944 Listing configuration items
946 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
952 Changes to tagging interface
954 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
955 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
956 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
957 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
958 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
959 for more information.
961 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
962 may need to update in custom configurations.
964 Reply improvement using the JSON format
966 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
967 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
968 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
969 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
972 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
973 -----------------------------
975 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
976 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
977 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
978 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
979 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
980 contrib/ from now on.
985 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
986 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
988 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
989 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
991 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
992 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
993 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
995 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
996 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
998 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
999 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1000 returning the new database object or directory object.
1007 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1008 compatible with go 1.
1010 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1011 =========================
1013 Command-Line Interface
1014 ----------------------
1018 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1019 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1020 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1021 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1023 Mail store folder/file ignore
1025 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1026 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1027 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1029 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1030 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1032 Unified help and manual pages
1034 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1035 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1038 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1040 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1041 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1049 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1050 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1051 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1052 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1054 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1056 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1057 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1059 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1062 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1063 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1064 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1066 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1068 should be changed to:
1070 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1072 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1074 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1075 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1077 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1079 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1080 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1081 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1082 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1083 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1084 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1088 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1089 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1090 of Mailing List Archives.
1092 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1094 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1095 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1098 Show view archiving key binding changes
1100 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1101 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1102 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1103 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1104 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1107 Support text/calendar MIME type
1109 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1112 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1114 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1115 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1116 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1117 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1119 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1121 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1122 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1123 messages blue by default in the search view.
1127 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1128 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1135 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1138 Python bindings changes
1139 -----------------------
1141 Python 3.2 compatibility
1143 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1145 Added missing unicode conversions
1147 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1148 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1149 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1154 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1156 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1157 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1158 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1159 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1160 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1162 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1163 ===========================
1168 Fix error handling in python bindings
1170 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1171 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1172 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1173 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1175 Quote MML tags in replies
1177 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1178 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1179 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1180 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1181 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1182 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1183 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1184 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1186 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1187 =========================
1189 Command-Line Interface
1190 ----------------------
1194 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1195 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1196 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1197 importing new messages into the database.
1199 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1201 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1202 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1203 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1208 Automatic tag query optimization
1210 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1211 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1212 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1214 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1216 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1217 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1218 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1223 Reduction of memory leaks
1225 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1226 and fixed in this release.
1233 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1234 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1235 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1238 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1240 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1241 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1242 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1245 Improvements in saved search management
1247 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1248 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1249 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1251 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1253 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1254 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1255 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1257 New face for crypto parts headers
1259 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1260 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1261 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1264 Use space as default thousands separator
1266 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1267 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1268 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1270 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1271 buttonized id: links
1273 New function notmuch-show-advance
1275 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1276 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1277 be bound to SPC with:
1279 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1281 Various performance improvements
1286 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1287 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1290 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1291 ===========================
1296 Fix crash in python bindings
1298 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1299 for some, but not all users.
1301 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1302 ===========================
1307 Fix `--help` argument
1309 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1310 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1311 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1313 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1314 =========================
1316 New build and testing features
1317 ------------------------------
1319 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1320 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1321 prerequisites is improved.
1323 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1325 New command-line features
1326 -------------------------
1328 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1330 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1331 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1334 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1336 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1337 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1338 favour of using stdout.
1340 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1342 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1343 limit the number of results shown.
1345 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1347 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1348 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1351 New emacs UI features
1352 ---------------------
1354 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1356 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1357 starting with "tag:".
1359 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1361 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1362 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1364 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1366 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1368 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1370 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1371 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1376 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1378 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1380 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1381 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1382 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1383 requires a database rebuild:
1385 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1386 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1388 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1390 New collection of add-on tools
1391 ------------------------------
1393 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1394 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1395 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1398 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1400 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1401 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1402 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1404 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1405 ========================
1407 New, general features
1408 ---------------------
1410 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1412 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1413 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1414 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1415 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1416 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1423 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1424 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1426 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1430 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1431 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1432 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1435 Python bindings changes
1436 -----------------------
1438 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1440 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1441 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1442 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1443 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1444 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1445 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1447 Ruby bindings changes
1448 ---------------------
1450 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1451 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1452 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1453 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1458 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1460 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1461 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1463 Reply formatting cleanup
1464 ------------------------
1466 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1467 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1469 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1470 ========================
1472 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1474 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1475 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1476 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1477 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1480 Improved Build system portability
1482 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1483 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1484 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1486 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1488 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1490 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1492 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1493 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1494 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1496 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1497 ========================
1499 Vim interface improvements
1500 --------------------------
1502 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1504 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1505 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1506 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1507 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1508 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1510 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1512 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1513 * fix compose temp file name
1515 Python Bindings changes
1516 -----------------------
1518 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1520 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1521 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1523 Build-System improvements
1524 -------------------------
1526 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1528 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1531 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1532 ==========================
1537 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1539 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1540 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1542 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1543 =======================
1545 New, general features
1546 ---------------------
1548 Folder-based searching
1550 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1551 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1552 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1556 For example, one might use things such as:
1562 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1563 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1565 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1566 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1567 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1568 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1570 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1571 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1572 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1575 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1576 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1578 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1580 Support for PGP/MIME
1582 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1583 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1584 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1586 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1588 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1589 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1591 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1592 notmuch will receive these tags.
1594 New command-line features
1595 -------------------------
1597 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1599 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1600 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1602 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1604 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1605 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1606 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1608 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1610 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1611 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1612 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1613 which parts a signature part applies).
1615 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1617 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1618 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1619 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1620 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1621 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1624 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1626 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1627 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1628 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1629 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1630 by translating it internally to the new call.
1632 Performance improvements
1633 ------------------------
1635 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1637 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1638 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1639 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1641 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1642 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1644 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1646 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1647 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1648 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1650 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1651 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1652 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1653 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1655 Faster initial indexing
1657 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1658 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1659 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1661 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1663 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1664 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1665 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1666 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1668 New emacs-interface features
1669 ----------------------------
1671 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1673 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1674 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1675 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1676 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1677 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1678 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1680 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1682 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1683 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1684 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1685 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1687 User-selectable From address
1689 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1690 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1691 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1692 will prompt for the from address to use.
1694 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1695 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1696 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1698 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1699 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1700 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1703 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1705 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1706 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1708 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1710 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1712 ----- Original Message -----
1714 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1715 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1716 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1717 citations work much like conventional citations.
1719 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1721 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1722 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1723 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1724 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1725 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1727 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1728 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1730 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1732 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1733 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1734 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1736 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1738 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1739 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1740 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1741 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1742 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1744 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1746 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1749 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1751 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1753 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1755 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1758 Vim interface improvements
1759 --------------------------
1761 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1763 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1764 * Implementing archive in show view
1765 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1766 * Add delete commands
1769 Bindings improvements
1770 ---------------------
1772 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1774 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1775 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1777 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1779 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1783 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1784 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1785 `list(Messages)` works now
1786 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1788 These allow, for example:
1790 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1792 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1794 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1800 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1802 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1805 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1807 New build-system features
1808 -------------------------
1810 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1812 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1813 the configure script from some other directory:
1820 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1822 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1823 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1824 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1825 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1826 manual invocation of configure.
1828 New test-suite feature
1829 ----------------------
1831 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1833 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1834 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1835 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1836 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1837 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1840 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1842 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1843 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1844 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1845 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1846 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1847 are updated to take advantage of this.
1849 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1851 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1852 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1853 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1854 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1860 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1862 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1863 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1864 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1866 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1868 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1870 to:user@elsewhere.com
1872 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1874 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1876 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1878 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1879 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1880 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1883 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1884 from the Received headers in some cases
1886 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1887 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1889 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1891 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1893 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1895 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1896 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1897 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1899 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1900 -------------------------
1902 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1904 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1905 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1906 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1908 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1910 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1911 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1912 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1915 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1917 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1918 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1919 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1920 fixed to avoid this bug.
1922 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1924 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1925 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1927 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1928 ========================
1930 New, general features
1931 ---------------------
1933 Maildir-flag synchronization
1935 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1936 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1945 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1947 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1948 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1949 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1950 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1952 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1953 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1954 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1955 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1958 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1960 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1961 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1962 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1964 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1965 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1967 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1968 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1970 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1971 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1972 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1974 New library features
1975 --------------------
1977 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
1979 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
1980 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
1981 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
1982 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
1984 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
1985 message with the new function:
1987 notmuch_message_get_filenames
1989 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
1990 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
1991 over all available filenames for a given message.
1993 New command-line features
1994 -------------------------
1996 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
1998 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
1999 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2000 access to the mail store itself.
2002 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2003 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2004 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2005 name of a script containing:
2007 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2009 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2010 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2016 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2018 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2020 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2022 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2023 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2024 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2025 now produces nothing).
2027 Emacs interface improvements
2028 ----------------------------
2030 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2032 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2034 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2036 Display current thread subject in a header line
2038 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2040 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2042 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2043 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2044 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2045 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2046 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2047 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2048 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2050 Vim interface improvements
2051 --------------------------
2053 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2055 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2056 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2062 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2064 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2065 ========================
2067 New command-line features
2068 -------------------------
2070 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2072 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2073 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2074 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2076 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2077 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2078 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2079 scripts. For example:
2081 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2082 <operations-on> "$file"
2085 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2087 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2088 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2089 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2090 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2091 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2092 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2094 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2096 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2097 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2098 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2099 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2101 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2103 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2104 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2105 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2106 default rather than Bcc.
2108 New library features
2109 --------------------
2111 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2113 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2114 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2119 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2121 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2122 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2123 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2124 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2125 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2126 notmuch customize interface.
2128 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2130 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2131 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2132 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2133 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2135 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2137 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2138 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2139 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2140 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2142 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2144 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2145 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2146 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2147 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2148 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2149 notmuch customize interface.
2151 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2153 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2154 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2155 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2156 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2157 notmuch customize interface.
2159 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2161 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2162 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2163 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2164 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2167 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2169 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2170 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2171 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2174 New build-system features
2175 -------------------------
2177 Various portability fixes have been applied
2179 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2180 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2181 more portable than ever before.
2183 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2185 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2186 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2187 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2189 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2190 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2191 automatically run ldconfig.
2193 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2194 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2195 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2197 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2198 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2199 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2200 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2202 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2204 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2205 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2206 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2207 used in the resulting Makefile.
2209 New test-suite features
2210 -----------------------
2212 New modularization of test suite
2214 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2215 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2216 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2217 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2218 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2219 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2220 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2221 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2223 New testing of emacs interface
2225 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2226 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2227 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2228 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2229 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2230 database via the FCC setting.
2235 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2237 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2238 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2239 persistent error of the form:
2241 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2243 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2244 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2246 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2248 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2249 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2250 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2252 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2254 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2255 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2256 parsing the notmuch results).
2258 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2260 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2263 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2264 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2265 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2270 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2272 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2273 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2274 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2275 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2276 the emacs interface.
2278 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2280 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2281 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2282 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2284 Python-binding fixes
2285 --------------------
2287 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2289 Debian-specific fixes
2290 ---------------------
2292 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2294 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2295 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2296 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2299 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2300 ==========================
2305 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2307 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2308 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2309 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2310 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2312 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2314 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2315 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2316 want notmuch to crash.
2321 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2323 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2324 directory does not exist
2329 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2331 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2332 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2334 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2335 ========================
2337 New command-line features
2338 -------------------------
2340 User-configurable tags for new messages
2342 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2343 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2344 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2345 to specify this value.
2347 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2349 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2350 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2351 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2353 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2355 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2356 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2358 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2360 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2361 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2362 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2363 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2364 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2367 Indication of author names that match a search
2369 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2370 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2371 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2372 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2373 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2374 messages in the thread are listed first.
2376 New: Python bindings
2377 --------------------
2379 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2380 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2381 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2382 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2384 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2385 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2386 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2389 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2390 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2391 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2393 Emacs interface improvements
2394 ----------------------------
2396 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2398 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2399 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2400 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2401 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2402 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2403 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2404 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2405 but without any of the disadvantages).
2407 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2408 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2409 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2412 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2413 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2414 instead running something like:
2416 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2418 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2419 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2420 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2423 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2425 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2426 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2427 tweaked by the user.
2429 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2430 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2431 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2434 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2435 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2436 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2439 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2441 This support currently relies on an external program,
2442 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2443 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2444 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2445 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2446 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2449 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2450 notmuch) is available via:
2452 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2454 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2455 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2456 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2458 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2460 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2461 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2462 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2463 making this automatic in a future release.
2465 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2467 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2468 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2469 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2470 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2471 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2472 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2475 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2477 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2478 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2479 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2481 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2483 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2484 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2485 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2487 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2488 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2489 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2490 other representation.
2492 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2493 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2496 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2498 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2499 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2500 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2502 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2503 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2504 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2506 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2508 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2509 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2510 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2511 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2512 to display the search result.
2514 More flexible handling of header visibility
2516 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2517 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2518 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2519 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2520 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2521 with the 'h' keybinding.
2523 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2524 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2525 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2527 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2529 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2531 Customizable formatting of search results
2533 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2534 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2535 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2537 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2539 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2541 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2546 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2548 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2549 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2550 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2551 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2557 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2559 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2560 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2562 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2564 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2565 accept are now all accepted.
2570 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2572 Better display of output from failed tests
2574 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2575 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2577 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2578 ========================
2580 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2581 detailed release notes this time!
2583 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2584 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2586 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2587 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2588 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2589 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2596 Better guessing of From: header
2598 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2599 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2600 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2601 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2602 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2605 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2607 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2608 guaranteed to match all messages.
2610 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2612 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2613 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2614 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2615 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2616 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2619 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2622 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2623 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2624 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2625 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2630 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2632 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2633 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2634 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2635 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2637 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2639 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2641 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2642 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2643 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2645 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2647 Previously, the user might see:
2649 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2653 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2655 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2656 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2657 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2658 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2660 Emacs client features
2661 ---------------------
2663 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2665 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2666 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2667 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2668 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2669 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2671 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2674 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2675 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2676 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2677 search with the '*' binding.
2679 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2681 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2682 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2685 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2687 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2688 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2689 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2691 Build-system features
2692 ---------------------
2694 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2696 Add support to configure for many standard options
2698 We include actual support for:
2700 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2702 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2704 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2705 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2707 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2708 separate "make install-emacs"
2710 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2712 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2713 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2714 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2716 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2719 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2720 ========================
2722 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2724 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2725 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2727 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2728 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2729 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2730 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2731 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2732 tags from messages in a thread.
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