1 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
2 =========================
9 "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
10 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
11 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
12 --reply-to=(all|sender).
16 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
17 to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
19 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
20 tag in your query, for example:
22 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
24 Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
25 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
27 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
28 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
30 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
37 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
38 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
39 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
40 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
42 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
44 All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
45 "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
47 "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
50 `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
51 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
52 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
54 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
58 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
65 notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
71 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
73 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
74 However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
75 signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
77 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
78 ===========================
83 Fix error handling in python bindings.
85 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
86 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
87 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
88 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
90 Quote MML tags in replies
92 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
93 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
94 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
95 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
96 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
97 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
98 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
99 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
101 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
102 =========================
104 Command-Line Interface
105 ----------------------
109 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
110 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
111 supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
112 importing new messages into the database.
114 notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
116 The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
117 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
118 sometimes. This is now fixed.
123 Automatic tag query optimization
125 "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
126 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
127 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
129 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
131 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
132 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
133 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
138 Reduction of memory leaks
140 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
141 and fixed in this release.
148 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
149 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
150 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
153 Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
155 It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
156 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
157 advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
160 Improvements in saved search management
162 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
163 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
164 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
166 Hooks for notmuch-hello
168 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
169 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
170 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
172 New face for crypto parts headers
174 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
175 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
176 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
179 Use space as default thousands separator
181 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
182 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
183 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
185 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
186 buttonized id: links.
188 New function notmuch-show-advance
190 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
191 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
192 be bound to SPC with:
194 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
196 Various performance improvements.
201 The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
202 tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
205 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
206 ===========================
211 Fix crash in python bindings.
213 The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
214 for some, but not all users.
216 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
217 ===========================
224 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
225 --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
228 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
229 =========================
231 New build and testing features
232 ------------------------------
234 Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
235 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
236 prerequisites is improved.
238 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
240 New command-line features
241 -------------------------
243 Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
245 The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
246 applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
249 Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
251 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
252 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
253 favour of using stdout.
255 Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
257 The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
258 the number of results shown.
260 Add "notmuch count --output" option
262 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
263 messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
265 New emacs UI features
266 ---------------------
268 Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
270 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
271 starting with "tag:".
273 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
275 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
276 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
278 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
280 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
282 Do not query on notmuch-search exit
284 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
285 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
290 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
292 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
294 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
295 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
296 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
297 requires a database rebuild:
299 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
300 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
302 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
304 New collection of add-on tools
305 ------------------------------
307 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
308 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
309 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
312 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
314 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
315 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
316 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
318 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
319 ========================
321 New, general features
322 ---------------------
324 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
326 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
327 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
328 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
329 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
330 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
337 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
338 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
340 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
344 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
345 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
346 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
349 Python bindings changes
350 -----------------------
352 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
354 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
355 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
356 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
357 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
358 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
359 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
361 Ruby bindings changes
362 ---------------------
364 - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
365 - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
366 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
367 - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
372 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
374 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
375 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
377 Reply formatting cleanup
378 ------------------------
380 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
381 MIME parts are being suppressed.
383 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
384 ========================
386 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
388 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
389 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
390 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
391 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
394 Improved Build system portability
396 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
397 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
398 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
400 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
402 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
404 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
406 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
407 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
408 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
410 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
411 ========================
413 Vim interface improvements
414 --------------------------
416 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
418 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
419 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
420 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
421 * fix from list reformatting in search view
422 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
424 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
426 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
427 * fix compose temp file name
429 Python Bindings changes
430 -----------------------
432 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
434 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
435 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
437 Build-System improvements
438 ------------------------
440 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
442 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
445 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
446 ==========================
451 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
453 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
454 people running gcc 4.4.5.
456 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
457 =======================
458 New, general features
459 ---------------------
460 Folder-based searching
462 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
463 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
464 storage). The syntax is as follows:
468 For example, one might use things such as:
474 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
475 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
477 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
478 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
479 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
480 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
482 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
483 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
484 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
487 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
488 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
490 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
494 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
495 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
496 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
498 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
500 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
501 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
503 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
504 notmuch will receive these tags.
506 New command-line features
507 -------------------------
508 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
510 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
511 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
513 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
515 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
516 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
517 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
519 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
521 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
522 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
523 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
524 which parts a signature part applies).
526 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
528 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
529 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
530 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
531 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
532 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
535 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
537 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
538 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
539 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
540 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
541 by translating it internally to the new call.
543 Performance improvements
544 ------------------------
545 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
547 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
548 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
549 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
551 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
552 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
554 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
556 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
557 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
558 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
560 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
561 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
562 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
563 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
565 Faster initial indexing
567 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
568 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
569 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
571 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
573 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
574 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
575 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
576 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
578 New emacs-interface features
579 ----------------------------
581 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
583 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
584 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
585 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
586 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
587 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
588 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
590 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
592 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
593 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
594 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
595 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
597 User-selectable From address
599 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
600 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
601 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
602 will prompt for the from address to use.
604 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
605 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
606 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
608 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
609 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
610 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
613 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
615 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
616 its parent, the subject is not shown.
618 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
620 When a message contains a line looking something like:
622 ----- Original Message -----
624 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
625 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
626 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
627 citations work much like conventional citations.
629 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
631 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
632 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
633 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
634 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
635 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
637 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
638 Notmuch After Tag Hook
640 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
642 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
643 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
644 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
646 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
648 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
649 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
650 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
651 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
652 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
654 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
656 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
659 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
661 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
663 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
664 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
666 Vim interface improvements
667 --------------------------
668 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
670 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
671 * Implementing archive in show view
672 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
673 * Add delete commands
676 Bindings improvements
677 ---------------------
678 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
680 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
681 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
683 * Python bindings have been updated and extended
684 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
687 - Message().get_filenames(),
688 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
689 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
691 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
692 These allow, for example:
695 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
697 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
702 - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
703 Use len(list(Messages())) or
704 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
706 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
708 New build-system features
709 -------------------------
710 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
712 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
713 the configure script from some other directory:
720 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
722 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
723 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
724 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
725 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
726 manual invocation of configure.
728 New test-suite feature
729 ----------------------
730 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
732 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
733 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
734 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
735 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
736 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
739 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
741 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
742 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
743 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
744 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
745 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
746 are updated to take advantage of this.
748 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
750 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
751 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
752 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
753 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
758 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
760 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
761 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
762 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
764 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
766 This fixed a bug where a search for:
768 to:user@elsewhere.com
770 would incorrectly match a message sent:
772 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
774 Fix --output=json when search has no results
776 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
777 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
778 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
781 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
782 from the Received headers in some cases.
784 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
785 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
787 Cleaned up several memory leaks
789 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
791 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
793 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
794 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
795 interface and were never intended to be exported.
797 Emacs-interface bug fixes
798 -------------------------
799 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
801 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
802 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
803 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
805 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
807 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
808 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
809 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
812 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
814 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
815 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
816 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
817 fixed to avoid this bug.
819 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
821 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
822 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
824 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
825 ========================
826 New, general features
827 ---------------------
828 Maildir-flag synchronization
830 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
831 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
840 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
842 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
843 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
844 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
845 renamed with an 'R' flag).
847 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
848 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
849 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
850 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
853 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
855 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
856 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
857 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
859 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
860 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
862 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
863 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
865 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
866 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
867 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
871 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
873 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
874 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
875 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
876 notmuch_message_get_filename).
878 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
879 message with the new function:
881 notmuch_message_get_filenames
883 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
884 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
885 all available filenames for a given message.
887 New command-line features
888 -------------------------
889 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
891 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
892 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
893 access to the mail store itself.
895 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
896 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
897 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
898 name of a script containing:
900 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
902 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
903 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
908 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
910 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
912 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
914 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
915 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
916 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
917 now produces nothing).
919 Emacs interface improvements
920 ----------------------------
921 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
923 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
925 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
927 Display current thread subject in a header line.
929 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
931 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
933 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
934 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
935 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
936 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
937 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
938 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
939 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
941 Vim interface improvements
942 --------------------------
943 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
945 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
946 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
951 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
953 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
954 ========================
955 New command-line features
956 -------------------------
957 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
959 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
960 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
961 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
963 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
964 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
965 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
966 scripts. For example:
968 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
969 <operations-on> "$file"
972 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
974 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
975 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
976 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
977 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
978 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
979 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
981 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
983 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
984 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
985 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
986 custom items stored in the configuration file.
988 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
990 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
991 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
992 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
993 default rather than Bcc.
997 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
999 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
1000 notmuch_query_t object.
1004 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
1006 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
1007 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
1008 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
1009 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
1010 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
1011 notmuch customize interface.
1013 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
1015 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
1016 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
1017 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
1018 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
1020 Optional support for detecting inline patches
1022 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
1023 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
1024 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
1025 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
1027 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
1029 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
1030 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
1031 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
1032 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
1033 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
1034 notmuch customize interface.
1036 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
1038 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
1039 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
1040 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
1041 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
1042 notmuch customize interface.
1044 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
1046 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
1047 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
1048 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
1049 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
1052 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
1054 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
1055 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
1056 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
1059 New build-system features
1060 -------------------------
1061 Various portability fixes have been applied
1063 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
1064 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
1065 more portable than ever before.
1067 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
1069 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
1070 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
1071 after installing. This support takes two forms:
1073 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
1074 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
1075 automatically run ldconfig.
1077 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
1078 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
1079 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
1081 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
1082 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
1083 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
1084 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1086 Check compiler/linker options before using them
1088 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
1089 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
1090 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
1091 used in the resulting Makefile.
1093 New test-suite features
1094 -----------------------
1095 New modularization of test suite.
1097 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
1098 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
1099 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
1100 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
1101 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
1102 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
1103 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
1104 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
1106 New testing of emacs interface.
1108 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
1109 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
1110 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
1111 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
1112 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
1113 database via the FCC setting.
1117 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
1119 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
1120 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
1121 persistent error of the form:
1123 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
1125 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
1126 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
1128 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
1130 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
1131 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
1132 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
1134 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
1136 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
1137 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
1138 parsing the notmuch results).
1140 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
1142 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
1144 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
1145 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
1146 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
1150 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
1152 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
1153 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
1154 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
1155 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
1156 the emacs interface.
1158 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
1160 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
1161 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
1162 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
1164 Python-binding fixes
1165 --------------------
1166 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
1168 Debian-specific fixes
1169 ---------------------
1170 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
1172 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
1173 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
1174 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
1177 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
1178 ==========================
1181 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
1183 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
1184 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
1185 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
1186 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
1188 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
1190 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
1191 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
1192 want notmuch to crash.
1196 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
1198 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
1199 directory does not exist.
1203 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
1205 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
1206 final linking of notmuch would fail.
1208 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
1209 ========================
1210 New command-line features
1211 -------------------------
1212 User-configurable tags for new messages
1214 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
1215 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
1216 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
1217 to specify this value.
1219 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
1221 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
1222 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
1223 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
1225 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
1227 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
1228 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
1230 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
1232 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
1233 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
1234 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
1235 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
1236 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
1239 Indication of author names that match a search
1241 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
1242 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
1243 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
1244 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
1245 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
1246 messages in the thread are listed first.
1248 New: Python bindings
1249 --------------------
1250 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
1251 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
1252 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
1253 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
1255 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
1256 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
1257 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
1260 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
1261 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
1262 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
1264 Emacs interface improvements
1265 ----------------------------
1266 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
1268 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
1269 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
1270 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
1271 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
1272 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
1273 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
1274 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
1275 but without any of the disadvantages).
1277 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
1278 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
1279 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
1282 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
1283 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
1284 recommend instead running something like:
1286 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
1288 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
1289 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
1290 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
1293 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
1295 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
1296 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
1297 tweaked by the user.
1299 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
1300 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
1301 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
1304 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
1305 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
1306 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
1309 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
1311 This support currently relies on an external program,
1312 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
1313 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
1314 already been written that generate address completions by doing
1315 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
1316 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1319 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1320 notmuch) is available via:
1322 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1324 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1325 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1326 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1328 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1330 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1331 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1332 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1333 making this automatic in a future release.
1335 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1337 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1338 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1339 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1340 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1341 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1342 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1345 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1347 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1348 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1349 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1351 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1353 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1354 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1355 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1357 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1358 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1359 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1360 other representation.
1362 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1363 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1366 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1368 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1369 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1370 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1372 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1373 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1374 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1376 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1378 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1379 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1380 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1381 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1382 to display the search result.
1384 More flexible handling of header visibility
1386 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1387 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1388 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1389 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1390 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1391 with the 'h' keybinding.
1393 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1394 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1395 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1397 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1399 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1401 Customizable formatting of search results
1403 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1404 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1405 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1407 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1409 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1411 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1415 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1417 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1418 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1419 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1420 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1425 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1427 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1428 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1430 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1432 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1433 accept are now all accepted.
1437 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1439 Better display of output from failed tests.
1441 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1442 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1444 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1445 ========================
1446 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1447 detailed release notes this time!
1449 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1450 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1452 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1453 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1454 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1455 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1461 Better guessing of From: header.
1463 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1464 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1465 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1466 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1467 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1470 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1472 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1473 guaranteed to match all messages.
1475 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1477 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1478 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1479 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1480 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1481 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1484 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1487 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1488 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1489 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1490 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1494 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1496 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1497 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1498 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1499 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1501 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1503 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1505 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1506 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1507 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1509 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1511 Previously, the user might see:
1513 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1517 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1519 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1520 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1521 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1522 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1524 Emacs client features
1525 ---------------------
1526 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1528 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1529 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1530 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1531 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1532 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1534 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1537 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1538 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1539 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1540 search with the '*' binding.
1542 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1544 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1545 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1548 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1550 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1551 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1552 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1554 Build-system features
1555 ---------------------
1556 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1558 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1560 We include actual support for:
1562 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1564 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1566 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1567 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1569 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1570 separate "make install-emacs".
1572 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1574 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1575 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1576 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1578 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1581 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1582 ========================
1583 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1585 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1586 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1588 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1589 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1590 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1591 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1592 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1593 tags from messages in a thread.