Bug-fix release.
----------------
-* **_Fix --help argument_**
+#### Fix --help argument
Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
--help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
Bug-fix release.
----------------
-* **_Fix crash in python bindings_**
+#### Fix crash in python bindings
The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
for some, but not all users.
New command-line features
-------------------------
-* **_Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option_**
+#### Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
the dump file.
-* **_Add search terms to "notmuch dump"_**
+#### Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
favour of using stdout.
-* **_Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options_**
+#### Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
the number of results shown.
-* **_Add "notmuch count --output" option_**
+#### Add "notmuch count --output" option
The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
New emacs UI features
---------------------
-* **_Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter_**
+#### Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
These functions now support completion tags for query parts
starting with "tag:".
-* **_Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches_**
+#### Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
-* **_Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix_**
+#### Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
-* **_Do not query on notmuch-search exit_**
+#### Do not query on notmuch-search exit
It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
Performance
-----------
-* **_Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently_**
+#### Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
-* **_Search avoids opening and parsing message files_**
+#### Search avoids opening and parsing message files
We now store more information in the database so search no longer
has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
requires a database rebuild:
- notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
- # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
- notmuch new
- notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
New collection of add-on tools
------------------------------
licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
mailing list.
-* **_nmbug - share tags with a given prefix_**
+#### nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
-* **_Hooks_**
+#### Hooks
Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
importing new messages into the database.
-* **_`notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`_**
+#### `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
Performance
-----------
-* **_Automatic tag query optimization_**
+#### Automatic tag query optimization
"notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
-* **_Don't sort messages when creating a dump file_**
+#### Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
Memory Management
-----------------
-* **_Reduction of memory leaks_**
+#### Reduction of memory leaks
Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
and fixed in this release.
Emacs Interface
---------------
-* **_Bug fixes_**
+#### Bug fixes
notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
This is now fixed.
-* **_Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script_**
+#### Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
scripts.
-* **_Improvements in saved search management_**
+#### Improvements in saved search management
New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
-* **_Hooks for notmuch-hello_**
+#### Hooks for notmuch-hello
Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
-* **_New face for crypto parts headers_**
+#### New face for crypto parts headers
Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
other color themes.
-* **_Use space as default thousands separator_**
+#### Use space as default thousands separator
Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
-* **_Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
- buttonized id: links._**
+#### Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on buttonized id: links.
-* **_New function notmuch-show-advance_**
+#### New function notmuch-show-advance
This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
be bound to SPC with:
- (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
+ (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
-* **_Various performance improvements_**
+#### Various performance improvements
New add-on tool
---------------
General features
----------------
-* **_Better guessing of From: header_**
+#### Better guessing of From: header
Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
configured address.
-* **_Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages_**
+#### Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
guaranteed to match all messages.
-* **_Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages_**
+#### Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
"notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
other search terms.
-* **_Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message
- is missing_**
+#### Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is missing
Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
General bug fixes
-----------------
-* **_Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT_**
+#### Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
-* **_Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty_**
+#### Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
-* **_Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json_**
+#### Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
-* **_Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"_**
+#### Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
Previously, the user might see:
- Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
+ Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
rather than:
- Subject: Re: Rozlučka
+ Subject: Re: Rozlučka
The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
Emacs client features
---------------------
-* **_Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines_**
+#### Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
-* **_The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
- tags by region_**
+#### The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove tags by region
Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
search with the '*' binding.
-* **_More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers_**
+#### More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
number to the user.
-* **_Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags_**
+#### Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
Build-system features
---------------------
-* **_Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)_**
+#### Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
-* **_Add support to configure for many standard options_**
+#### Add support to configure for many standard options
We include actual support for:
- --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
+ --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
And accept and silently ignore several more:
- --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
- --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
+ --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
+ --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
-* **_Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
- separate "make install-emacs"_**
+#### Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a separate "make install-emacs"
-* **_Automatically compute versions numbers between releases_**
+#### Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
-* **_Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
- verify its results_**
+#### Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify its results
General bug fixes
-----------------
-* **_Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"_**
+#### Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
-* **_Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"_**
+#### Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
Build fix
---------
-* **_Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block_**
+#### Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
final linking of notmuch would fail.
New command-line features
-------------------------
-* **_User-configurable tags for new messages_**
+#### User-configurable tags for new messages
A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
to specify this value.
-* **_Threads search results named based on subjects that match search_**
+#### Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
-* **_Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)_**
+#### Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
-* **_Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"_**
+#### Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
header).
-* **_Indication of author names that match a search_**
+#### Indication of author names that match a search
When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
-* **_An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)_**
+#### An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
away.
Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
- immediately displaying a particular search result, we
- recommend instead running something like:
+ immediately displaying a particular search result, we
+ recommend instead running something like:
- emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
+ emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
- The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
- (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
- leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
- order.
+ The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
+ (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
+ leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
+ order.
-* **_Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch_**
+#### Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
settings.
-* **_Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses_**
+#### Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
This support currently relies on an external program,
(notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
notmuch) is available via:
- git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
+ git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
line of an email message will provide matching completions.
-* **_Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store_**
+#### Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
making this automatic in a future release.
-* **_New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")_**
+#### New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
tag" commands.
-* **_Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch_**
+#### Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
-* **_Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)_**
+#### Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
attachments).
-* **_Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content_**
+#### Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
Many new functions are available for tidying up message
content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
-* **_New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)_**
+#### New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
to display the search result.
-* **_More flexible handling of header visibility_**
+#### More flexible handling of header visibility
As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
-* **_The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere_**
+#### The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
-* **_Customizable formatting of search results_**
+#### Customizable formatting of search results
The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
-* **_Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search_**
+#### Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
-* **_Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs_**
+#### Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
-* **_New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread_**
+#### New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
New library feature
-------------------
-* **_Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries_**
+#### Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
Build fixes
-----------
-* **_Fix to compile against GMime 2.6_**
+#### Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
-* **_Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options_**
+#### Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
accept are now all accepted.
Test suite
----------
-* **_A large number of new tests for the many new features_**
+#### A large number of new tests for the many new features
-* **_Better display of output from failed tests_**
+#### Better display of output from failed tests
Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
New command-line features
-------------------------
-* **_`notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`_**
+#### `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
scripts. For example:
- for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
- <operations-on> "$file"
- done
+ for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
+ <operations-on> "$file"
+ done
-* **_`notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`_**
+#### `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
This new option allows for the messages matching a search
specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
followed by the 5 characters "From ".
-* **_`notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`_**
+#### `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
custom items stored in the configuration file.
-* **_Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"_**
+#### Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
New library features
--------------------
-* **_Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`_**
+#### Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
These are simply functions for querying properties of a
`notmuch_query_t` object.
New emacs features
------------------
-* **_Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)_**
+#### Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
notmuch customize interface.
-* **_Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe_**
+#### Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
-* **_Optional support for detecting inline patches_**
+#### Optional support for detecting inline patches
This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
-* **_Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply_**
+#### Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
"replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
notmuch customize interface.
-* **_Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other_**
+#### Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
notmuch customize interface.
-* **_Make hidden author names still available for incremental search_**
+#### Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
names.
-* **_New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)_**
+#### New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
New build-system features
-------------------------
-* **_Various portability fixes have been applied_**
+#### Various portability fixes have been applied
These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
more portable than ever before.
-* **_Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install_**
+#### Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
after installing. This support takes two forms:
- 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
- (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
- automatically run ldconfig.
+ 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
+ (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
+ automatically run ldconfig.
- 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
- build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
- pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
+ 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
+ build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
+ pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
-* **_Check compiler/linker options before using them_**
+#### Check compiler/linker options before using them
The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
New test-suite features
-----------------------
-* **_New modularization of test suite_**
+#### New modularization of test suite
Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
-* **_New testing of emacs interface_**
+#### New testing of emacs interface
The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
General bug fixes
-----------------
-* **_Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted_**
+#### Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted
Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
persistent error of the form:
- document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
+ document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
-* **_Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers_**
+#### Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
-* **_Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"_**
+#### Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
parsing the notmuch results).
-* **_Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception_**
+#### Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
-* **_Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
- fails_**
+#### Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads` fails
Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
-* **_Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"_**
+#### Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
the emacs interface.
-* **_Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."_**
+#### Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
Debian-specific fixes
---------------------
-* **_Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default_**
+#### Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
New, general features
---------------------
-* **_Maildir-flag synchronization_**
+#### Maildir-flag synchronization
Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
supported:
- Flag <-> Tag
- ---- -----
- 'D' draft
- 'F' flagged
- 'P' passed
- 'R' replied
- 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
+ Flag <-> Tag
+ ---- -----
+ 'D' draft
+ 'F' flagged
+ 'P' passed
+ 'R' replied
+ 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
example:
- notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
+ notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
functionality is available with the following two new functions:
- notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
- notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
+ notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
+ notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
New library features
--------------------
-* **_Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message_**
+#### Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
message with the new function:
- notmuch_message_get_filenames
+ notmuch_message_get_filenames
Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
New command-line features
-------------------------
-* **_New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents_**
+#### New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
name of a script containing:
- ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
+ ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
General bug fixes
-----------------
-* **_Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches_**
+#### Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
- notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
+ notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
-* **_Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh_**
+#### Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
-* **_Fix count of lines in hidden signatures_**
+#### Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
-* **_Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display_**
+#### Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
-* **_Display current thread subject in a header line_**
+#### Display current thread subject in a header line
-* **_Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view_**
+#### Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
-* **_Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil_**
+#### Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
Bug-fix release
---------------
-* **_Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols_**
+#### Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
people running gcc 4.4.5.
New, general features
---------------------
-* **_Folder-based searching_**
+#### Folder-based searching
Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
storage). The syntax is as follows:
+ folder:<path>
For example, one might use things such as:
- folder:spam
- folder:2011-*
- folder:work/todo
+ folder:spam
+ folder:2011-*
+ folder:work/todo
to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
rebuilt as follows:
- notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
- # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
- notmuch new
- notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
-* **_Support for PGP/MIME_**
+#### Support for PGP/MIME
Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
-* **_New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"_**
+#### New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
New command-line features
-------------------------
-* **_Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification_**
+#### Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
PGP/MIME-signed parts.
-* **_Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options_**
+#### Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
-* **_Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output_**
+#### Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
which parts a signature part applies).
-* **_Add new "notmuch show --part" option_**
+#### Add new "notmuch show --part" option
This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
formatting).
-* **_Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")_**
+#### Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
Performance improvements
------------------------
-* **_Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)_**
+#### Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
-* **_Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)_**
+#### Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
-* **_Faster initial indexing_**
+#### Faster initial indexing
More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
-* **_Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories_**
+#### Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
New emacs-interface features
----------------------------
-* **_Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)_**
+#### Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
-* **_Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails_**
+#### Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
"git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
previously they were silently hidden from the user).
-* **_User-selectable From address_**
+#### User-selectable From address
A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
customize group.
-* **_Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view_**
+#### Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
its parent, the subject is not shown.
-* **_Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted
- message_**
+#### Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
- ----- Original Message -----
+ ----- Original Message -----
emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
(allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
citations work much like conventional citations.
-* **_New hooks for running code when tags are modified_**
+#### New hooks for running code when tags are modified
Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
- Notmuch Before Tag Hook
- Notmuch After Tag Hook
+ Notmuch Before Tag Hook
+ Notmuch After Tag Hook
-* **_New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts_**
+#### New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
- Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
+ Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
-* **_Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts_**
+#### Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
emacs diary.
-* **_Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline
- characters_**
+#### Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
Bindings improvements
---------------------
-* **_Ruby bindings are now much more complete_**
+#### Ruby bindings are now much more complete
Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
`MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
-* **_Python bindings have been updated and extended_**
+#### Python bindings have been updated and extended
(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
- `list(Threads())` and `list(Messages)` works now
- `Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()`
- These allow, for example:
- if msg1 == msg2: ...
+ These allow, for example:
+ if msg1 == msg2: ...
As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
- s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
- s1.union(s2)
- s2 -= s1
+ s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
+ s1.union(s2)
+ s2 -= s1
Removed:
- len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
- Use len(list(Messages())) or
- `Query.count_messages()` to get the length.
+ Use len(list(Messages())) or
+ `Query.count_messages()` to get the length.
-* **_Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go_**
+#### Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
-------------------------
-* **_Added support for building in a directory other than the source
- directory_**
+#### Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
the configure script from some other directory:
- mkdir build
- cd build
- ../configure
- make
+ mkdir build
+ cd build
+ ../configure
+ make
-* **_Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure_**
+#### Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
"make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
New test-suite feature
----------------------
-* **_Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH_**
+#### Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
the test suite.
-* **_Support for testing output with a trailing newline_**
+#### Support for testing output with a trailing newline
Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
are updated to take advantage of this.
-* **_Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite_**
+#### Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
General bug fixes
-----------------
-* **_Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"_**
+#### Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
-* **_Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses_**
+#### Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
This fixed a bug where a search for:
- to:user@elsewhere.com
+ to:user@elsewhere.com
would incorrectly match a message sent:
- To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
+ To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
-* **_Fix --output=json when search has no results_**
+#### Fix --output=json when search has no results
A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
expected.
-* **_Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
- from the Received headers in some cases._**
+#### Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply" from the Received headers in some cases.
-* **_Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
- `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`._**
+#### Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`.
-* **_Cleaned up several memory leaks_**
+#### Cleaned up several memory leaks
-* **_Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free_**
+#### Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
-* **_Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions_**
+#### Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
Emacs-interface bug fixes
-------------------------
-* **_Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search"
-invocations_**
+#### Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
-* **_Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results_**
+#### Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
is now fixed.
-* **_Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment_**
+#### Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
(potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
fixed to avoid this bug.
-* **_Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible_**
+#### Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
Build-System improvements
-------------------------
-* **_Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files_**
+#### Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
patch.
Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
========================
-* **_Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts_**
+#### Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
soon).
-* **_Improved Build system portability_**
+#### Improved Build system portability
Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
-* **_Documentation update for Ruby bindings_**
+#### Documentation update for Ruby bindings
Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
-* **_Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings_**
+#### Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
- PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
- Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
New, general features
---------------------
-* **_Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"_**
+#### Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
"notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
Library changes
---------------
-* **_New functions_**
+#### New functions
`notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
-* **_API changes_**
+#### API changes
`notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
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