1 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-05)
2 ========================
4 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
6 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
7 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
8 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
9 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
12 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
13 ========================
15 Vim interface improvements
16 --------------------------
18 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
20 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
21 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
22 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
23 * fix from list reformatting in search view
24 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
26 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
28 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
29 * fix compose temp file name
31 Python Bindings changes
32 -----------------------
34 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
36 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
37 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
39 Build-System improvments
40 ------------------------
42 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
44 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
47 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
48 ==========================
53 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
55 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
56 people running gcc 4.4.5.
58 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
59 =======================
62 Folder-based searching
64 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
65 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
66 storage). The syntax is as follows:
70 For example, one might use things such as:
76 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
77 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
79 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
80 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
81 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
82 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
84 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
85 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
86 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
89 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
90 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
92 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
96 Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
97 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
98 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
100 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
102 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
103 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
105 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
106 notmuch will receive these tags.
108 New command-line features
109 -------------------------
110 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
112 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
113 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
115 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
117 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
118 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
119 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
121 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
123 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
124 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
125 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
126 which parts a signature part applies).
128 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
130 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
131 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
132 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
133 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
134 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
137 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
139 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
140 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
141 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
142 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
143 by translating it internally to the new call.
145 Performance improvements
146 ------------------------
147 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
149 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
150 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
151 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
153 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
154 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
156 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
158 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
159 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
160 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
162 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
163 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
164 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
165 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
167 Faster initial indexing
169 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
170 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
171 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
173 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
175 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
176 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
177 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
178 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
180 New emacs-interface features
181 ----------------------------
183 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
185 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
186 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
187 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
188 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
189 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
190 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
192 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
194 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
195 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
196 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
197 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
199 User-selectable From address
201 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
202 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
203 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
204 will prompt for the from address to use.
206 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
207 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
208 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
210 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
211 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
212 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
215 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
217 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
218 its parent, the subject is not shown.
220 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
222 When a message contains a line looking something like:
224 ----- Original Message -----
226 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
227 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
228 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
229 citations work much like conventional citations.
231 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
233 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
234 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
235 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
236 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
237 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
239 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
240 Notmuch After Tag Hook
242 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
244 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
245 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
246 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
248 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
250 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
251 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
252 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
253 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
254 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
256 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
258 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
261 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
263 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
265 Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
266 and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
268 Vim interface improvements
269 --------------------------
270 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
272 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
273 * Implementing archive in show view
274 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
275 * Add delete commands
278 Bindings improvements
279 ---------------------
280 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
282 Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
283 MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
285 * Python bindings have been upodated and extended
286 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
289 - Message().get_filenames(),
290 - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
291 - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
293 - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
294 These allow, for example:
297 As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
299 s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
304 - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
305 Use len(list(Messages())) or
306 Query.count_messages() to get the length.
308 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
310 New build-system features
311 -------------------------
312 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
314 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
315 the configure script from some other directory:
322 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
324 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
325 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
326 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
327 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
328 manual invocation of configure.
330 New test-suite feature
331 ----------------------
332 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
334 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
335 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
336 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
337 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
338 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
341 Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
343 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
344 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
345 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
346 test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
347 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
348 are updated to take advantage of this.
350 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
352 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
353 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
354 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
355 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
360 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
362 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
363 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
364 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
366 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
368 This fixed a bug where a search for:
370 to:user@elsewhere.com
372 would incorrectly match a message sent:
374 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
376 Fix --output=json when search has no results
378 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
379 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
380 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
383 fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
384 from the Received headers in some cases.
386 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
387 sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
389 Cleaned up several memory leaks
391 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
393 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
395 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
396 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
397 interface and were never intended to be exported.
399 Emacs-interface bug fixes
400 -------------------------
401 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
403 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
404 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
405 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
407 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
409 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
410 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
411 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
414 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
416 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
417 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
418 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
419 fixed to avoid this bug.
421 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
423 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
424 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
426 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
427 ========================
428 New, general features
429 ---------------------
430 Maildir-flag synchronization
432 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
433 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
442 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
444 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
445 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
446 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
447 renamed with an 'R' flag).
449 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
450 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
451 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
452 new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
455 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
457 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
458 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
459 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
461 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
462 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
464 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
465 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
467 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
468 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
469 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
473 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
475 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
476 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
477 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
478 notmuch_message_get_filename).
480 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
481 message with the new function:
483 notmuch_message_get_filenames
485 Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
486 notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
487 all available filenames for a given message.
489 New command-line features
490 -------------------------
491 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
493 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
494 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
495 access to the mail store itself.
497 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
498 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
499 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
500 name of a script containing:
502 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
504 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
505 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
510 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
512 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
514 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
516 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
517 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
518 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
519 now produces nothing).
521 Emacs interface improvements
522 ----------------------------
523 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
525 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
527 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
529 Display current thread subject in a header line.
531 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
533 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
535 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
536 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
537 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
538 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
539 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
540 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
541 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
543 Vim interface improvements
544 --------------------------
545 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
547 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
548 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
553 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
555 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
556 ========================
557 New command-line features
558 -------------------------
559 notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
561 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
562 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
563 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
565 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
566 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
567 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
568 scripts. For example:
570 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
571 <operations-on> "$file"
574 notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
576 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
577 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
578 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
579 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
580 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
581 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
583 notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
585 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
586 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
587 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
588 custom items stored in the configuration file.
590 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
592 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
593 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
594 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
595 default rather than Bcc.
599 Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
601 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
602 notmuch_query_t object.
606 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
608 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
609 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
610 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
611 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
612 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
613 notmuch customize interface.
615 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
617 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
618 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
619 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
620 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
622 Optional support for detecting inline patches
624 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
625 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
626 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
627 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
629 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
631 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
632 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
633 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
634 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
635 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
636 notmuch customize interface.
638 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
640 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
641 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
642 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
643 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
644 notmuch customize interface.
646 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
648 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
649 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
650 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
651 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
654 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
656 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
657 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
658 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
661 New build-system features
662 -------------------------
663 Various portability fixes have been applied
665 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
666 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
667 more portable than ever before.
669 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
671 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
672 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
673 after installing. This support takes two forms:
675 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
676 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
677 automatically run ldconfig.
679 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
680 build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
681 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
683 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
684 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
685 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
686 variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
688 Check compiler/linker options before using them
690 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
691 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
692 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
693 used in the resulting Makefile.
695 New test-suite features
696 -----------------------
697 New modularization of test suite.
699 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
700 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
701 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
702 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
703 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
704 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
705 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
706 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
708 New testing of emacs interface.
710 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
711 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
712 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
713 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
714 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
715 database via the FCC setting.
719 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
721 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
722 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
723 persistent error of the form:
725 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
727 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
728 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
730 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
732 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
733 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
734 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
736 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
738 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
739 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
740 parsing the notmuch results).
742 Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
744 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
746 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
747 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
748 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
752 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
754 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
755 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
756 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
757 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
760 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
762 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
763 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
764 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
768 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
770 Debian-specific fixes
771 ---------------------
772 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
774 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
775 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
776 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
779 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
780 ==========================
783 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
785 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
786 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
787 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
788 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
790 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
792 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
793 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
794 want notmuch to crash.
798 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
800 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
801 directory does not exist.
805 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
807 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
808 final linking of notmuch would fail.
810 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
811 ========================
812 New command-line features
813 -------------------------
814 User-configurable tags for new messages
816 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
817 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
818 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
819 to specify this value.
821 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
823 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
824 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
825 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
827 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
829 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
830 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
832 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
834 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
835 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
836 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
837 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
838 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
841 Indication of author names that match a search
843 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
844 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
845 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
846 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
847 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
848 messages in the thread are listed first.
852 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
853 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
854 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
855 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
857 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
858 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
859 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
862 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
863 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
864 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
866 Emacs interface improvements
867 ----------------------------
868 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
870 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
871 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
872 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
873 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
874 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
875 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
876 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
877 but without any of the disadvantages).
879 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
880 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
881 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
884 Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
885 immediately displaying a particular search result, we
886 recommend instead running something like:
888 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
890 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
891 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
892 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
895 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
897 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
898 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
901 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
902 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
903 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
906 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
907 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
908 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
911 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
913 This support currently relies on an external program,
914 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
915 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
916 already been written that generate address completions by doing
917 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
918 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
921 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
922 notmuch) is available via:
924 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
926 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
927 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
928 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
930 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
932 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
933 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
934 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
935 making this automatic in a future release.
937 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
939 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
940 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
941 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
942 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
943 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
944 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
947 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
949 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
950 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
951 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
953 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
955 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
956 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
957 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
959 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
960 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
961 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
962 other representation.
964 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
965 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
968 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
970 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
971 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
972 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
974 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
975 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
976 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
978 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
980 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
981 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
982 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
983 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
984 to display the search result.
986 More flexible handling of header visibility
988 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
989 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
990 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
991 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
992 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
993 with the 'h' keybinding.
995 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
996 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
997 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
999 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
1001 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
1003 Customizable formatting of search results
1005 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
1006 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
1007 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
1009 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
1011 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
1013 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
1017 Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
1019 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
1020 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
1021 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
1022 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
1027 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
1029 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
1030 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
1032 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
1034 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
1035 accept are now all accepted.
1039 A large number of new tests for the many new features.
1041 Better display of output from failed tests.
1043 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
1044 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
1046 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
1047 ========================
1048 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
1049 detailed release notes this time!
1051 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
1052 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
1054 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
1055 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
1056 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
1057 notmuch in subsequent releases.
1063 Better guessing of From: header.
1065 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
1066 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
1067 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
1068 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
1069 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
1072 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
1074 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
1075 guaranteed to match all messages.
1077 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
1079 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
1080 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
1081 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
1082 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
1083 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
1086 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
1089 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
1090 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
1091 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
1092 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
1096 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
1098 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
1099 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
1100 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
1101 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
1103 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
1105 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
1107 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
1108 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
1109 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
1111 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
1113 Previously, the user might see:
1115 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
1119 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
1121 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
1122 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
1123 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
1124 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
1126 Emacs client features
1127 ---------------------
1128 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
1130 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
1131 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
1132 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
1133 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
1134 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
1136 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
1139 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
1140 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
1141 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
1142 search with the '*' binding.
1144 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
1146 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
1147 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
1150 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
1152 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
1153 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
1154 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
1156 Build-system features
1157 ---------------------
1158 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
1160 Add support to configure for many standard options.
1162 We include actual support for:
1164 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
1166 And accept and silently ignore several more:
1168 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
1169 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
1171 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
1172 separate "make install-emacs".
1174 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
1176 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
1177 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
1178 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
1180 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
1183 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
1184 ========================
1185 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
1187 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
1188 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
1190 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1191 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
1192 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
1193 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
1194 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
1195 tags from messages in a thread.