1 Notmuch 0.19 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
8 notmuch_database_destroy
13 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
14 from the config file. Use something like:
18 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
19 "footer": "</body></html>",
25 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
26 ===========================
28 This is a bug fix and portability release.
33 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
35 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
37 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
39 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
41 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
47 Use --quick when starting emacs
49 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
51 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
53 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
55 Command-Line Interface
56 ----------------------
58 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
59 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
64 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
66 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
67 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
69 Fix for phrase indexing
71 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
72 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
73 will affect only newly indexed messages.
78 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
80 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
81 unintentionally removed.
83 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
84 =========================
89 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
90 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
91 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
92 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
93 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
94 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
95 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
96 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
97 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
103 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
105 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
106 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
107 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
108 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
109 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
110 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
111 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
112 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
114 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
116 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
117 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
118 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
119 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
122 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
124 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
125 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
126 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
127 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
128 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
129 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
130 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
135 Notmuch database upgrade
137 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
138 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
139 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
140 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
141 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
142 released version of Notmuch before now.
144 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
146 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
147 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
148 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
149 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
151 Message header parsing changes
153 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
154 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
155 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
156 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
157 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
158 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
160 Command-Line Interface
161 ----------------------
163 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
165 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
167 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
169 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
171 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
173 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
174 user does not want it.
176 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
178 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
179 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
180 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
181 support formatted output.
183 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
185 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
186 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
187 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
195 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
196 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
197 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
198 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
199 `~/.emacs` with these.
201 Changed format for saved searches
203 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
204 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
205 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
206 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
209 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
210 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
211 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
212 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
214 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
215 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
216 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
218 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
219 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
220 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
221 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
222 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
224 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
226 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
227 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
228 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
230 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
232 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
233 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
234 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
235 message had been unread).
237 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
238 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
239 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
240 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
242 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
243 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
244 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
246 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
247 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
248 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
249 to tags already present.
253 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
254 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
255 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
256 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
257 these differ from each other.
258 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
260 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
262 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
263 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
264 for these Emacs versions.
266 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
268 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
269 newlines before calling notmuch count.
271 Bug fixes for sender identities
273 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
274 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
275 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
277 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
279 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
280 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
281 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
282 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
284 Reply pushes mark before signature
286 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
287 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
288 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
290 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
292 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
293 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
299 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
300 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
302 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
303 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
304 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
305 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
307 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
308 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
309 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
310 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
311 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
313 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
315 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
316 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
318 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
319 =========================
321 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
322 ---------------------------------------
324 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
325 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
326 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
327 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
328 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
329 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
330 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
334 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
335 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
337 Command-Line Interface
338 ----------------------
340 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
342 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
343 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
344 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
345 print for each message.
347 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
348 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
349 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
350 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
352 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
354 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
355 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
356 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
358 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
360 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
361 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
362 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
363 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
365 `notmuch compact` command
367 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
368 functionality through a more convenient interface than
369 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
370 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
371 move the compacted database into place.
376 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
378 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
379 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
380 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
381 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
382 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
383 and multiple threads.
387 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
389 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
390 search, show and tree mode itself)
392 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
395 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
396 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
398 Customising `notmuch-tree`
400 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
401 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
402 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
403 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
404 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
405 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
406 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
408 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
410 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
411 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
412 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
413 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
414 thread when the search was performed.
416 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
418 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
419 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
420 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
422 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
424 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
425 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
428 Built-in help improvements
430 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
431 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
432 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
434 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
436 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
437 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
438 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
440 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
442 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
443 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
445 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
447 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
448 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
449 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
450 to move some of them to the common keymap.
452 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
454 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
455 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
456 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
457 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
459 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
461 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
462 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
463 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
465 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
467 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
468 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
469 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
471 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
473 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
474 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
475 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
476 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
477 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
479 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
481 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
482 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
483 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
484 the body part of the message.
489 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
490 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
491 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
493 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
494 =========================
496 Command-Line Interface
497 ----------------------
499 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
501 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
502 folder and notmuch index.
504 `notmuch count --batch` option
506 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
507 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
509 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
511 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
512 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
513 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
516 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
518 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
519 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
520 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
521 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
522 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
525 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
527 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
528 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
530 Top level option to specify configuration file
532 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
533 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
535 Bash command-line completion
537 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
538 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
539 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
540 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
541 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
542 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
543 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
544 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
545 bash-completion package.
547 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
552 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
554 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
555 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
556 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
557 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
558 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
559 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
560 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
561 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
563 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
565 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
566 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
567 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
569 Key bindings for next/previous thread
571 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
572 previous thread in the search results.
574 Better handling of errors in search buffers
576 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
577 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
579 Faster search and show
581 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
582 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
583 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
584 threads should show faster.
588 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
589 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
590 in question was now removed from this release.
595 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
596 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
601 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
603 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
604 ===========================
609 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
611 Internal test framework changes
612 -------------------------------
614 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
617 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
618 ===========================
620 Internal test framework changes
621 -------------------------------
623 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
624 build failures in non-interactive environments.
626 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
627 =========================
632 Date range search support
634 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
635 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
636 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
637 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
638 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
641 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
643 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
644 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
645 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
646 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
647 but may be removed in a future release.
649 Command-Line Interface
650 ----------------------
652 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
654 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
655 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
657 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
659 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
660 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
661 officially deprecated.
663 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
665 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
666 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
667 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
669 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
671 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
672 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
675 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
676 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
679 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
681 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
682 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
683 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
685 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
687 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
688 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
689 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
691 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
693 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
694 output separated by null characters rather than newline
695 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
696 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
701 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
703 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
704 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
705 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
706 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
708 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
710 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
711 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
712 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
713 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
714 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
715 the behavior of this, see
716 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
717 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
719 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
720 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
721 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
723 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
725 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
726 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
729 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
731 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
732 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
733 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
734 simply displayed in place of the message.
736 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
738 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
739 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
741 Improved text/calendar content handling
743 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
744 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
745 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
746 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
748 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
750 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
751 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
752 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
753 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
755 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
757 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
758 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
759 for HTML email containing images.
761 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
763 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
765 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
767 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
770 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
772 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
773 the point where it was.
775 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
777 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
778 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
779 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
780 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
781 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
783 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
785 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
786 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
787 thread instead of the message id.
789 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
790 -----------------------------
792 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
793 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
794 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
795 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
796 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
797 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
798 further details and installation.
803 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
805 Internal test framework changes
806 -------------------------------
808 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
810 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
811 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
812 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
813 can result in buggy behavior.
815 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
816 =========================
821 Maildir tag synchronization
823 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
824 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
825 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
826 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
827 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
828 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
831 Command-Line Interface
832 ----------------------
834 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
835 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
836 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
837 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
838 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
844 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
846 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
848 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
849 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
850 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
852 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
854 It is now possible to embed newlines in
855 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
858 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
860 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
861 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
862 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
863 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
864 inside the result or message.
866 Search now uses the JSON format internally
868 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
869 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
871 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
872 user-specified formatting
874 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
875 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
876 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
877 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
878 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
880 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
881 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
883 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
884 ===========================
889 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
890 compilation error for this contrib package.
892 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
893 ===========================
898 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
900 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
901 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
902 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
903 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
905 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
906 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
909 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
910 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
911 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
912 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
915 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
917 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
920 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
921 =========================
923 Command-Line Interface
924 ----------------------
928 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
929 for a reply message and full information about the original message
930 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
931 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
933 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
934 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
935 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
936 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
940 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
941 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
943 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
944 tag in your query, for example:
946 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
948 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
949 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
951 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
952 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
954 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
956 Raw show format changes
958 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
959 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
960 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
961 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
962 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
963 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
964 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
965 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
967 Listing configuration items
969 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
975 Changes to tagging interface
977 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
978 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
979 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
980 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
981 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
982 for more information.
984 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
985 may need to update in custom configurations.
987 Reply improvement using the JSON format
989 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
990 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
991 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
992 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
995 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
996 -----------------------------
998 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
999 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1000 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1001 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1002 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1003 contrib/ from now on.
1008 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1009 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1011 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1012 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1014 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1015 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1016 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1018 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1019 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1021 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1022 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1023 returning the new database object or directory object.
1030 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1031 compatible with go 1.
1033 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1034 =========================
1036 Command-Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1041 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1042 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1043 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1044 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1046 Mail store folder/file ignore
1048 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1049 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1050 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1052 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1053 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1055 Unified help and manual pages
1057 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1058 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1061 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1063 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1064 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1072 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1073 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1074 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1075 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1077 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1079 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1080 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1082 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1085 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1086 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1087 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1089 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1091 should be changed to:
1093 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1095 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1097 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1098 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1100 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1102 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1103 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1104 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1105 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1106 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1107 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1111 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1112 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1113 of Mailing List Archives.
1115 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1117 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1118 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1121 Show view archiving key binding changes
1123 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1124 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1125 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1126 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1127 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1130 Support text/calendar MIME type
1132 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1135 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1137 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1138 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1139 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1140 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1142 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1144 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1145 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1146 messages blue by default in the search view.
1150 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1151 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1158 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1161 Python bindings changes
1162 -----------------------
1164 Python 3.2 compatibility
1166 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1168 Added missing unicode conversions
1170 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1171 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1172 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1177 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1179 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1180 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1181 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1182 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1183 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1185 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1186 ===========================
1191 Fix error handling in python bindings
1193 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1194 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1195 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1196 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1198 Quote MML tags in replies
1200 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1201 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1202 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1203 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1204 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1205 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1206 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1207 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1209 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1210 =========================
1212 Command-Line Interface
1213 ----------------------
1217 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1218 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1219 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1220 importing new messages into the database.
1222 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1224 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1225 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1226 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1231 Automatic tag query optimization
1233 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1234 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1235 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1237 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1239 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1240 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1241 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1246 Reduction of memory leaks
1248 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1249 and fixed in this release.
1256 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1257 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1258 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1261 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1263 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1264 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1265 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1268 Improvements in saved search management
1270 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1271 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1272 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1274 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1276 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1277 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1278 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1280 New face for crypto parts headers
1282 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1283 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1284 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1287 Use space as default thousands separator
1289 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1290 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1291 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1293 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1294 buttonized id: links
1296 New function notmuch-show-advance
1298 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1299 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1300 be bound to SPC with:
1302 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1304 Various performance improvements
1309 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1310 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1313 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1314 ===========================
1319 Fix crash in python bindings
1321 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1322 for some, but not all users.
1324 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1325 ===========================
1330 Fix `--help` argument
1332 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1333 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1334 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1336 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1337 =========================
1339 New build and testing features
1340 ------------------------------
1342 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1343 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1344 prerequisites is improved.
1346 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1348 New command-line features
1349 -------------------------
1351 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1353 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1354 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1357 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1359 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1360 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1361 favour of using stdout.
1363 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1365 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1366 limit the number of results shown.
1368 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1370 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1371 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1374 New emacs UI features
1375 ---------------------
1377 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1379 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1380 starting with "tag:".
1382 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1384 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1385 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1387 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1389 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1391 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1393 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1394 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1399 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1401 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1403 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1404 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1405 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1406 requires a database rebuild:
1408 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1409 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1411 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1413 New collection of add-on tools
1414 ------------------------------
1416 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1417 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1418 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1421 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1423 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1424 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1425 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1427 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1428 ========================
1430 New, general features
1431 ---------------------
1433 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1435 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1436 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1437 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1438 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1439 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1446 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1447 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1449 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1453 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1454 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1455 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1458 Python bindings changes
1459 -----------------------
1461 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1463 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1464 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1465 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1466 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1467 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1468 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1470 Ruby bindings changes
1471 ---------------------
1473 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1474 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1475 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1476 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1481 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1483 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1484 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1486 Reply formatting cleanup
1487 ------------------------
1489 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1490 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1492 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1493 ========================
1495 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1497 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1498 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1499 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1500 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1503 Improved Build system portability
1505 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1506 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1507 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1509 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1511 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1513 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1515 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1516 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1517 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1519 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1520 ========================
1522 Vim interface improvements
1523 --------------------------
1525 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1527 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1528 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1529 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1530 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1531 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1533 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1535 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1536 * fix compose temp file name
1538 Python Bindings changes
1539 -----------------------
1541 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1543 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1544 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1546 Build-System improvements
1547 -------------------------
1549 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1551 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1554 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1555 ==========================
1560 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1562 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1563 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1565 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1566 =======================
1568 New, general features
1569 ---------------------
1571 Folder-based searching
1573 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1574 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1575 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1579 For example, one might use things such as:
1585 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1586 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1588 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1589 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1590 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1591 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1593 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1594 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1595 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1598 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1599 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1601 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1603 Support for PGP/MIME
1605 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1606 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1607 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1609 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1611 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1612 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1614 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1615 notmuch will receive these tags.
1617 New command-line features
1618 -------------------------
1620 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1622 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1623 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1625 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1627 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1628 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1629 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1631 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1633 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1634 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1635 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1636 which parts a signature part applies).
1638 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1640 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1641 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1642 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1643 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1644 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1647 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1649 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1650 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1651 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1652 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1653 by translating it internally to the new call.
1655 Performance improvements
1656 ------------------------
1658 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1660 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1661 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1662 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1664 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1665 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1667 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1669 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1670 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1671 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1673 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1674 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1675 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1676 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1678 Faster initial indexing
1680 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1681 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1682 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1684 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1686 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1687 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1688 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1689 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1691 New emacs-interface features
1692 ----------------------------
1694 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1696 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1697 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1698 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1699 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1700 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1701 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1703 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1705 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1706 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1707 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1708 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1710 User-selectable From address
1712 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1713 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1714 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1715 will prompt for the from address to use.
1717 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1718 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1719 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1721 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1722 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1723 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1726 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1728 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1729 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1731 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1733 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1735 ----- Original Message -----
1737 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1738 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1739 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1740 citations work much like conventional citations.
1742 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1744 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1745 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1746 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1747 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1748 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1750 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1751 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1753 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1755 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1756 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1757 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1759 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1761 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1762 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1763 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1764 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1765 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1767 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1769 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1772 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1774 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1776 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1778 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1781 Vim interface improvements
1782 --------------------------
1784 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1786 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1787 * Implementing archive in show view
1788 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1789 * Add delete commands
1792 Bindings improvements
1793 ---------------------
1795 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1797 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1798 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1800 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1802 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1806 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1807 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1808 `list(Messages)` works now
1809 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1811 These allow, for example:
1813 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1815 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1817 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1823 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1825 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1828 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1830 New build-system features
1831 -------------------------
1833 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1835 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1836 the configure script from some other directory:
1843 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1845 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1846 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1847 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1848 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1849 manual invocation of configure.
1851 New test-suite feature
1852 ----------------------
1854 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1856 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1857 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1858 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1859 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1860 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1863 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1865 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1866 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1867 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1868 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1869 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1870 are updated to take advantage of this.
1872 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
1874 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
1875 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
1876 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
1877 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
1883 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
1885 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
1886 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
1887 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
1889 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
1891 This fixed a bug where a search for:
1893 to:user@elsewhere.com
1895 would incorrectly match a message sent:
1897 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
1899 Fix --output=json when search has no results
1901 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
1902 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
1903 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
1906 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
1907 from the Received headers in some cases
1909 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
1910 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
1912 Cleaned up several memory leaks
1914 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
1916 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
1918 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
1919 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
1920 interface and were never intended to be exported.
1922 Emacs-interface bug fixes
1923 -------------------------
1925 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
1927 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
1928 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
1929 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
1931 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
1933 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
1934 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
1935 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
1938 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
1940 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
1941 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
1942 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
1943 fixed to avoid this bug.
1945 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
1947 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
1948 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
1950 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
1951 ========================
1953 New, general features
1954 ---------------------
1956 Maildir-flag synchronization
1958 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
1959 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
1968 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
1970 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
1971 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
1972 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
1973 renamed with an 'R' flag).
1975 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
1976 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
1977 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
1978 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
1981 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
1983 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
1984 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
1985 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
1987 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
1988 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
1990 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
1991 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
1993 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
1994 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
1995 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
1997 New library features
1998 --------------------
2000 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2002 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2003 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2004 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2005 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2007 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2008 message with the new function:
2010 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2012 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2013 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2014 over all available filenames for a given message.
2016 New command-line features
2017 -------------------------
2019 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2021 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2022 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2023 access to the mail store itself.
2025 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2026 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2027 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2028 name of a script containing:
2030 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2032 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2033 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2039 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2041 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2043 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2045 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2046 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2047 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2048 now produces nothing).
2050 Emacs interface improvements
2051 ----------------------------
2053 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2055 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2057 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2059 Display current thread subject in a header line
2061 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2063 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2065 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2066 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2067 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2068 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2069 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2070 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2071 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2073 Vim interface improvements
2074 --------------------------
2076 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2078 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2079 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2085 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2087 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2088 ========================
2090 New command-line features
2091 -------------------------
2093 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2095 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2096 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2097 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2099 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2100 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2101 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2102 scripts. For example:
2104 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2105 <operations-on> "$file"
2108 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2110 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2111 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2112 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2113 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2114 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2115 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2117 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2119 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2120 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2121 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2122 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2124 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2126 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2127 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2128 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2129 default rather than Bcc.
2131 New library features
2132 --------------------
2134 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2136 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2137 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2142 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2144 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2145 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2146 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2147 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2148 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2149 notmuch customize interface.
2151 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2153 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2154 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2155 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2156 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2158 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2160 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2161 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2162 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2163 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2165 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2167 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2168 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2169 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2170 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2171 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2172 notmuch customize interface.
2174 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2176 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2177 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2178 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2179 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2180 notmuch customize interface.
2182 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2184 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2185 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2186 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2187 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2190 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2192 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2193 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2194 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2197 New build-system features
2198 -------------------------
2200 Various portability fixes have been applied
2202 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2203 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2204 more portable than ever before.
2206 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2208 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2209 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2210 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2212 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2213 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2214 automatically run ldconfig.
2216 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2217 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2218 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2220 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2221 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2222 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2223 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2225 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2227 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2228 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2229 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2230 used in the resulting Makefile.
2232 New test-suite features
2233 -----------------------
2235 New modularization of test suite
2237 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2238 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2239 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2240 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2241 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2242 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2243 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2244 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2246 New testing of emacs interface
2248 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2249 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2250 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2251 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2252 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2253 database via the FCC setting.
2258 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2260 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2261 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2262 persistent error of the form:
2264 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2266 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2267 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2269 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2271 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2272 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2273 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2275 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2277 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2278 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2279 parsing the notmuch results).
2281 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2283 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2286 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2287 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2288 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2293 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2295 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2296 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2297 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2298 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2299 the emacs interface.
2301 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2303 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2304 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2305 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2307 Python-binding fixes
2308 --------------------
2310 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2312 Debian-specific fixes
2313 ---------------------
2315 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2317 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2318 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2319 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2322 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2323 ==========================
2328 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2330 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2331 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2332 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2333 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2335 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2337 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2338 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2339 want notmuch to crash.
2344 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2346 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2347 directory does not exist
2352 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2354 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2355 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2357 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2358 ========================
2360 New command-line features
2361 -------------------------
2363 User-configurable tags for new messages
2365 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2366 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2367 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2368 to specify this value.
2370 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2372 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2373 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2374 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2376 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2378 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2379 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2381 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2383 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2384 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2385 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2386 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2387 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2390 Indication of author names that match a search
2392 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2393 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2394 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2395 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2396 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2397 messages in the thread are listed first.
2399 New: Python bindings
2400 --------------------
2402 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2403 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2404 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2405 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2407 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2408 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2409 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2412 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2413 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2414 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2416 Emacs interface improvements
2417 ----------------------------
2419 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2421 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2422 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2423 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2424 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2425 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2426 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2427 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2428 but without any of the disadvantages).
2430 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2431 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2432 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2435 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2436 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2437 instead running something like:
2439 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2441 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2442 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2443 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2446 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2448 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2449 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2450 tweaked by the user.
2452 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2453 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2454 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2457 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2458 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2459 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2462 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2464 This support currently relies on an external program,
2465 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2466 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2467 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2468 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2469 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2472 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2473 notmuch) is available via:
2475 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2477 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2478 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2479 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2481 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2483 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2484 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2485 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2486 making this automatic in a future release.
2488 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2490 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2491 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2492 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2493 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2494 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2495 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2498 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2500 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2501 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2502 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2504 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2506 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2507 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2508 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2510 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2511 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2512 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2513 other representation.
2515 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2516 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2519 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2521 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2522 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2523 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2525 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2526 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2527 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2529 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2531 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2532 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2533 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2534 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2535 to display the search result.
2537 More flexible handling of header visibility
2539 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2540 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2541 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2542 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2543 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2544 with the 'h' keybinding.
2546 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2547 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2548 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2550 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2552 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2554 Customizable formatting of search results
2556 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2557 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2558 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2560 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2562 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2564 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2569 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2571 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2572 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2573 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2574 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2580 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2582 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2583 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2585 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2587 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2588 accept are now all accepted.
2593 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2595 Better display of output from failed tests
2597 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2598 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2600 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2601 ========================
2603 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2604 detailed release notes this time!
2606 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2607 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2609 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2610 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2611 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2612 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2619 Better guessing of From: header
2621 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2622 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2623 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2624 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2625 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2628 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2630 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2631 guaranteed to match all messages.
2633 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2635 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2636 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2637 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2638 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2639 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2642 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2645 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2646 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2647 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2648 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2653 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2655 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2656 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2657 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2658 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2660 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2662 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2664 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2665 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2666 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2668 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2670 Previously, the user might see:
2672 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2676 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2678 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2679 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2680 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2681 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2683 Emacs client features
2684 ---------------------
2686 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2688 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2689 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2690 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2691 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2692 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2694 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2697 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2698 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2699 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2700 search with the '*' binding.
2702 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2704 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2705 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2708 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2710 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2711 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2712 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2714 Build-system features
2715 ---------------------
2717 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2719 Add support to configure for many standard options
2721 We include actual support for:
2723 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2725 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2727 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2728 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2730 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2731 separate "make install-emacs"
2733 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2735 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2736 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2737 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2739 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2742 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2743 ========================
2745 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2747 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2748 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2750 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2751 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2752 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2753 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2754 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2755 tags from messages in a thread.
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