1 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2 ========================
7 Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
9 "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
10 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
11 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
12 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
13 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
20 notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
21 multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
23 notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
27 notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
28 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
29 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
32 Python bindings changes
33 -----------------------
35 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
37 - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
38 - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
39 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
40 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
41 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
46 Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic,
47 and add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError. Rename destroy
48 to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
53 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
55 * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
56 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
58 Reply formatting cleanup
59 ------------------------
61 "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
62 MIME parts are being suppressed.
64 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
65 ========================
67 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
69 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
70 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
71 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
72 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
75 Improved Build system portability
77 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
78 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
79 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
81 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
83 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
85 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
87 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
88 - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
89 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
91 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
92 ========================
94 Vim interface improvements
95 --------------------------
97 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
99 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
100 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
101 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
102 * fix from list reformatting in search view
103 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
105 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
107 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
108 * fix compose temp file name
110 Python Bindings changes
111 -----------------------
113 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
115 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
116 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
118 Build-System improvments
119 ------------------------
121 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
123 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
126 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
127 ==========================
132 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
134 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
135 people running gcc 4.4.5.
137 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
138 =======================
139 New, general features
140 ---------------------
141 Folder-based searching
143 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
144 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
145 storage). The syntax is as follows:
149 For example, one might use things such as:
155 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
156 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
158 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
159 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
160 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
161 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
163 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
164 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
165 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
168 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
169 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
171 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
175 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
176 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
177 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
179 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
181 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
182 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
184 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
185 notmuch will receive these tags.
187 New command-line features
188 -------------------------
189 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
191 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
192 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
194 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
196 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
197 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
198 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
200 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
202 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
203 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
204 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
205 which parts a signature part applies).
207 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
209 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
210 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
211 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
212 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
213 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
216 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
218 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
219 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
220 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
221 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
222 by translating it internally to the new call.
224 Performance improvements
225 ------------------------
226 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
228 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
229 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
230 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
232 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
233 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
235 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
237 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
238 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
239 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
241 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
242 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
243 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
244 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
246 Faster initial indexing
248 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
249 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
250 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
252 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
254 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
255 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
256 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
257 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
259 New emacs-interface features
260 ----------------------------
262 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
264 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
265 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
266 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
267 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
268 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
269 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
271 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
273 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
274 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
275 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
276 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
278 User-selectable From address
280 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
281 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
282 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
283 will prompt for the from address to use.
285 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
286 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
287 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
289 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
290 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
291 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
294 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
296 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
297 its parent, the subject is not shown.
299 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
301 When a message contains a line looking something like:
303 ----- Original Message -----
305 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
306 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
307 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
308 citations work much like conventional citations.
310 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
312 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
313 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
314 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
315 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
316 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
318 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
319 Notmuch After Tag Hook
321 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
323 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
324 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
325 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
327 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
329 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
330 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
331 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
332 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
333 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
335 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
337 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
340 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
342 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
344 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
345 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
347 Vim interface improvements
348 --------------------------
349 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
351 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
352 * Implementing archive in show view
353 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
354 * Add delete commands
357 Bindings improvements
358 ---------------------
359 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
361 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
362 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
364 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
365 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
368 - Message().get_filenames(),
369 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
370 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
372 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
373 These allow, for example:
376 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
378 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
383 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
384 Use len(list(Messages())) or
385 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
387 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
389 New build-system features
390 -------------------------
391 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
393 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
394 the configure script from some other directory:
401 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
403 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
404 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
405 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
406 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
407 manual invocation of configure.
409 New test-suite feature
410 ----------------------
411 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
413 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
414 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
415 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
416 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
417 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
420 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
422 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
423 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
424 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
425 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
426 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
427 are updated to take advantage of this.
429 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
431 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
432 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
433 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
434 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
439 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
441 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
442 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
443 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
445 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
447 This fixed a bug where a search for:
449 to:user@elsewhere.com
451 would incorrectly match a message sent:
453 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
455 Fix --output=json when search has no results
457 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
458 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
459 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
462 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
463 from the Received headers in some cases.
465 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
466 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
468 Cleaned up several memory leaks
470 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
472 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
474 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
475 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
476 interface and were never intended to be exported.
478 Emacs-interface bug fixes
479 -------------------------
480 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
482 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
483 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
484 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
486 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
488 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
489 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
490 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
493 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
495 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
496 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
497 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
498 fixed to avoid this bug.
500 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
502 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
503 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
505 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
506 ========================
507 New, general features
508 ---------------------
509 Maildir-flag synchronization
511 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
512 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
521 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
523 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
524 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
525 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
526 renamed with an 'R' flag).
528 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
529 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
530 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
531 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
534 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
536 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
537 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
538 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
540 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
541 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
543 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
544 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
546 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
547 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
548 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
552 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
554 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
555 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
556 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
557 notmuch_message_get_filename).
559 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
560 message with the new function:
562 notmuch_message_get_filenames
564 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
565 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
566 all available filenames for a given message.
568 New command-line features
569 -------------------------
570 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
572 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
573 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
574 access to the mail store itself.
576 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
577 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
578 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
579 name of a script containing:
581 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
583 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
584 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
589 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
591 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
593 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
595 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
596 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
597 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
598 now produces nothing).
600 Emacs interface improvements
601 ----------------------------
602 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
604 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
606 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
608 Display current thread subject in a header line.
610 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
612 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
614 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
615 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
616 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
617 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
618 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
619 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
620 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
622 Vim interface improvements
623 --------------------------
624 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
626 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
627 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
632 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
634 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
635 ========================
636 New command-line features
637 -------------------------
638 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
640 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
641 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
642 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
644 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
645 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
646 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
647 scripts. For example:
649 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
650 <operations-on> "$file"
653 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
655 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
656 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
657 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
658 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
659 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
660 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
662 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
664 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
665 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
666 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
667 custom items stored in the configuration file.
669 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
671 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
672 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
673 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
674 default rather than Bcc.
678 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
680 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
681 notmuch_query_t object.
685 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
687 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
688 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
689 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
690 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
691 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
692 notmuch customize interface.
694 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
696 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
697 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
698 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
699 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
701 Optional support for detecting inline patches
703 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
704 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
705 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
706 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
708 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
710 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
711 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
712 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
713 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
714 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
715 notmuch customize interface.
717 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
719 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
720 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
721 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
722 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
723 notmuch customize interface.
725 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
727 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
728 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
729 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
730 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
733 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
735 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
736 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
737 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
740 New build-system features
741 -------------------------
742 Various portability fixes have been applied
744 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
745 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
746 more portable than ever before.
748 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
750 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
751 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
752 after installing. This support takes two forms:
754 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
755 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
756 automatically run ldconfig.
758 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
759 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
760 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
762 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
763 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
764 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
765 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
767 Check compiler/linker options before using them
769 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
770 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
771 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
772 used in the resulting Makefile.
774 New test-suite features
775 -----------------------
776 New modularization of test suite.
778 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
779 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
780 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
781 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
782 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
783 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
784 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
785 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
787 New testing of emacs interface.
789 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
790 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
791 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
792 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
793 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
794 database via the FCC setting.
798 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
800 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
801 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
802 persistent error of the form:
804 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
806 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
807 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
809 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
811 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
812 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
813 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
815 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
817 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
818 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
819 parsing the notmuch results).
821 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
823 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
825 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
826 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
827 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
831 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
833 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
834 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
835 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
836 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
839 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
841 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
842 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
843 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
847 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
849 Debian-specific fixes
850 ---------------------
851 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
853 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
854 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
855 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
858 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
859 ==========================
862 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
864 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
865 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
866 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
867 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
869 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
871 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
872 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
873 want notmuch to crash.
877 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
879 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
880 directory does not exist.
884 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
886 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
887 final linking of notmuch would fail.
889 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
890 ========================
891 New command-line features
892 -------------------------
893 User-configurable tags for new messages
895 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
896 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
897 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
898 to specify this value.
900 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
902 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
903 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
904 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
906 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
908 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
909 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
911 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
913 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
914 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
915 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
916 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
917 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
920 Indication of author names that match a search
922 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
923 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
924 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
925 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
926 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
927 messages in the thread are listed first.
931 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
932 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
933 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
934 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
936 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
937 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
938 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
941 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
942 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
943 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
945 Emacs interface improvements
946 ----------------------------
947 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
949 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
950 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
951 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
952 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
953 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
954 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
955 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
956 but without any of the disadvantages).
958 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
959 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
960 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
963 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
964 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
965 recommend instead running something like:
967 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
969 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
970 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
971 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
974 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
976 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
977 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
980 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
981 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
982 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
985 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
986 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
987 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
990 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
992 This support currently relies on an external program,
993 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
994 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
995 already been written that generate address completions by doing
996 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
997 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
1000 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
1001 notmuch) is available via:
1003 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
1005 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
1006 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
1007 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
1009 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
1011 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
1012 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
1013 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
1014 making this automatic in a future release.
1016 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
1018 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
1019 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
1020 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
1021 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
1022 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
1023 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
1026 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
1028 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
1029 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
1030 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
1032 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
1034 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
1035 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
1036 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
1038 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
1039 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
1040 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
1041 other representation.
1043 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
1044 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
1047 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
1049 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
1050 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
1051 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
1053 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
1054 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
1055 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
1057 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
1059 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
1060 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
1061 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
1062 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
1063 to display the search result.
1065 More flexible handling of header visibility
1067 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
1068 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
1069 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
1070 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
1071 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
1072 with the 'h' keybinding.
1074 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
1075 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
1076 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
1078 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1080 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1082 Customizable formatting of search results
1084 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1085 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1086 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1088 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1090 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1092 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1096 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1098 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1099 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1100 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1101 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1106 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1108 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1109 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1111 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1113 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1114 accept are now all accepted.
1118 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1120 Better display of output from failed tests.
1122 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1123 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1125 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1126 ========================
1127 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1128 detailed release notes this time!
1130 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1131 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1133 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1134 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1135 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1136 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1142 Better guessing of From: header.
1144 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1145 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1146 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1147 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1148 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1151 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1153 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1154 guaranteed to match all messages.
1156 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1158 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1159 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1160 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1161 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1162 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1165 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1168 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1169 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1170 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1171 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1175 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1177 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1178 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1179 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1180 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1182 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1184 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1186 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1187 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1188 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1190 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1192 Previously, the user might see:
1194 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1198 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1200 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1201 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1202 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1203 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1205 Emacs client features
1206 ---------------------
1207 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1209 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1210 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1211 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1212 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1213 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1215 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1218 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1219 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1220 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1221 search with the '*' binding.
1223 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1225 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1226 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1229 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1231 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1232 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1233 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1235 Build-system features
1236 ---------------------
1237 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1239 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1241 We include actual support for:
1243 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1245 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1247 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1248 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1250 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1251 separate "make install-emacs".
1253 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1255 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1256 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1257 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1259 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1262 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1263 ========================
1264 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1266 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1267 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1269 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1270 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1271 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1272 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1273 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1274 tags from messages in a thread.